How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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