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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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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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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 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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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