How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
ABIGAIL ADAMSWake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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These are 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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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