Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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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 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 he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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