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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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