I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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