Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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