I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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