O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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I 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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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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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