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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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These are the 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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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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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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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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