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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Abigail Adams

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Bleed John Adam Page Wounded
Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Compared Humble Indeed Pomp Witness
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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Degrade Demoralize Hand Historical Innocent Man Power Woven
The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Barbarism Ignorance Level Place Slavery Tenant Wood
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
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Born Challenge Contending Habit Mind Vigorous
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Acquire Character Future Importance May Step
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Contending Difficulty Formed Great Habit Vigorous
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
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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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
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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Ambition Difficult Hope Ourselves Pride Private Sacrifice Task
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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Happen Know Man Ought Reason
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Hero Learn Mean Perhaps Philosopher Statemen Vanity Women
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Cruelties Detail History Kingdom Powerful Ravage

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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