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!
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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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 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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