Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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