Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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 when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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 like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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