Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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