I acknowledge myself a unitarian
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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These are 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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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