These are the 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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMen of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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