How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I 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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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