Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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