O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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