A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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