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 ADAMSYou 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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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!
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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