Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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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 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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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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 we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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