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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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