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!
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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