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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Education Inspirational Perseverance

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Equality Memorable Women

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

4th Of July May Perseverance

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Honor Integrity Littles

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Arise Disappointment Unhappiness

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.

Intelligence Numbers Views

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, 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.

Giving Up Husband Sex

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Communication Diversity Language Words

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

Complaining Hate Shoes

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Men Moral Real

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

Duty Few Words Men

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

Accomplish Feet Forever

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Action Remember Son

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.

Hands Historical Men

These are the 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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Character Heart Hero

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.

Fall Kings People

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. 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. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

Hero Mean Vanity

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Heart Losing A Loved One Women

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Hero Mean Women

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Inspirational Retirement Women