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 ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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.
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