Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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