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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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