My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay 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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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