If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow 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!
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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 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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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These are 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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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