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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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