What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIs it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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