Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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