What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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 habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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