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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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 reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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I 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.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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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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