Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow 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!
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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