Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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