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
ABIGAIL ADAMSThere is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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May 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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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