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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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