If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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