We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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