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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and 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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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