Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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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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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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These are 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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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