My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThese are the times when a genius wants to live.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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