But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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