What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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