A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMen of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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