I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSAnd 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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