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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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These are the 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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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