I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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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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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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