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 ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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 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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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