If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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 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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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