The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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.
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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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