I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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