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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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