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.
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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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