To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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