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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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 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
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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