Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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