The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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