My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDeliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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These are the 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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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