Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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