Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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!
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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