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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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These are the 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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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