Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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