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
ABIGAIL ADAMSAnd bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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 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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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