When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMSIt is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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