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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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