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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

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Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
First Lady
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. 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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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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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The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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