If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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