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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThat your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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These are 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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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