Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHistory 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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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The 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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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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