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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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 patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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