What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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