If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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