These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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These are the 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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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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