What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMSThere is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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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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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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