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
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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