Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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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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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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