Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMSTo be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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