Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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These are 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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