Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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