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
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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