To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThere is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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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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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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