If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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