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
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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I 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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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The 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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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