When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMSMany of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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It 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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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