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
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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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 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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