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Birthdate January 11, 1922

Zodiac Capricorn

Location Greenville, Massachusetts

Country United States

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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 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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

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I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

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...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. 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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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

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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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