Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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 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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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