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
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I 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.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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