Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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