If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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 desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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
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And 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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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