What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMSI hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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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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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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