I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMen of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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 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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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