Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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