We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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