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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWell, 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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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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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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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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