I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThat your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in 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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