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

Abigail Adams

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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Fish Government Most People Power Right Strenuous Swallow Vested
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Good Man Obligation Possible Read
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Devil Eye Heart Read Time Wicked
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
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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Convicted Creature Dangerous Few Man Power Vested Wisdom
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.
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Determine Equality Foment Memorable Paid Particular Rebellion Women
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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Circumstance Judge Judging Ourselves Person Since
When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Happen Know Man Ought Reason
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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Blessed Collected Day Family Future Own Roof
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Abhor Age Custom Men Sex Vassal
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Comparison Domination Ignorance Man Observation Parent Power
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Bursting Heart Losing Loved One Women
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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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Comprise Duty Few Good Man Whole Word
The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Cannon House Revolution Roar Shake Sleep Tonight

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