Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSPosterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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