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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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