Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSArbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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