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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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