No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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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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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