Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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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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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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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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