Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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