The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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