Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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