I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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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 learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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