A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMSSome disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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But 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.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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 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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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