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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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 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 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 habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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