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.
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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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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with 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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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