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I acknowledge myself a unitarian

Abigail Adams

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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Children Country Goodness Grant Impress May Mind Ornament Step Universal
Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Accomplishment Arise Benefit Great Women
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Desire Favourable Generous Giving Husband Lady Remember Sex
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
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.
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Degrade Demoralize Hand Historical Innocent Man Power Woven
But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Defeat Invincible Learn Man Ought Power We
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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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
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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Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Abhor Age Custom Men Sex Vassal
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Cold Deliver Friend Husband Lover Politician Preacher
I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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Believe Father Jesus Knowledge Little More Primitive Simplicity Unitarian
My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Accountable Action Maker Remember Son Word
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
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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Ability Estimate Great Honor Horror Integrity Learning Little Small Truth
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit

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