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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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 necessities call out great virtues.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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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