Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSO, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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Every 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
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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