Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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