That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSI can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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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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