If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMSWake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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