A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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