Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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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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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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