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 ADAMSBut 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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