My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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