I acknowledge myself a unitarian
ABIGAIL ADAMSI’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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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