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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing
Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Ancestor Blessing Hardship Posterity Reap Suffering
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Call Frippery Little Necessary World
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Arbitrary Broken Promise Heart Liable Power
Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Accomplishment Arise Benefit Great Women
I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Believe Father Jesus Knowledge Little More Primitive Simplicity Unitarian
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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Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
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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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Bursting Heart Losing Loved One Women
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Character Genius Heart Hero Life Pacific Repose Time
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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Ambition Difficult Hope Ourselves Pride Private Sacrifice Task
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Fall King People Remain. Longer Slip
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Husband Tyrant Unlimited Wedding Women
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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Confusion Difficulty Great Justice Righteousness Stability Time
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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Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Cannon House Revolution Roar Shake Sleep Tonight

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