What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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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
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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.
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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.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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