But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
ABIGAIL ADAMSTo be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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