We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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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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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