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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.

Abigail Adams

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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Blessing Expect Father Manner Primitive Simplicity
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Daughter Empowerment Eve Female Mother Severely Smarted
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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Fall King People Remain. Longer Slip
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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Dark Disagreeable Humour Men Soul Vastly
But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Defeat Invincible Learn Man Ought Power We
Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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All Could Happen Man Remember Tyrant
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Circumstance Judge Judging Ourselves Person Since
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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Country Dare Equally Guarded Inattentive Person Protected Say
My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Accountable Action Maker Remember Son Word
Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Accomplishment Arise Benefit Great Women
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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Deepest Education First Perhaps Principle Root World
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Bleed John Adam Page Wounded
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Arbitrary Broken Promise Heart Liable Power
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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Convicted Creature Dangerous Few Man Power Vested Wisdom
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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Character Genius Heart Hero Life Pacific Repose Time
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Abhor Age Custom Men Sex Vassal

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