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.
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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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