That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSWisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in 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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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