We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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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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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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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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