These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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