I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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