These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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.
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