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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSAnd bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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