Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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 people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned 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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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