Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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