These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSEvery object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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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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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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 a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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