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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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 little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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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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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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