Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWell, 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.
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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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 learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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