But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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How 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!
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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