Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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