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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in 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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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