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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
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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The great fish swallow up the small and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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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 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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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These are 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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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