Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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