No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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