These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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