If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDark 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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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 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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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