And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I’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.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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