Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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These are 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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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