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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.

Abigail Adams

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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Acquire Character Future Importance May Step
No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
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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Conflict Felt Intelligence Number Person View
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Fish Government Most People Power Right Strenuous Swallow Vested
Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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All Could Happen Man Remember Tyrant
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Comparison Domination Ignorance Man Observation Parent Power
If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Blessing Expect Father Manner Primitive Simplicity
Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Accomplishment Arise Benefit Great Women
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Country Inhabitant Person Property Tranquil
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Accomplishment Brilliant Liberality Pleasure Sentiment Sex
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Bleed John Adam Page Wounded
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Agitated Beautiful Dancing Fine Motion Nature Object Under Wind Woman
A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Country Emulation Good Liberty Noble People
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Dispute Establish. Admit Naturally Sex Truth Tyrannical
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex

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