What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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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 few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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