Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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May 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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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