When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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