What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMSA patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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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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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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