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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSSome disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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 mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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