Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSMany of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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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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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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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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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