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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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 parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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 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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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