There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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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 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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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