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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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