Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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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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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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