Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned 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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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