If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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