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 ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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.
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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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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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