O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the 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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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