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
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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 reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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