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.
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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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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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