My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMany of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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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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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.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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