No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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 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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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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.
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