History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven 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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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