No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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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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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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