No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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.
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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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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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