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!
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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