It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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