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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSRemember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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