Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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