Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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 and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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