O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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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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These are the 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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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