That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat 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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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 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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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