My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIt is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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.
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