Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. 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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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