My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSNo one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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