Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMany of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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.
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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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