Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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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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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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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