May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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