Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat 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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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 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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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 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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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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