We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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