A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.
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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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