When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow 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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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These are 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.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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