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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHistory 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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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