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!
ABIGAIL ADAMSO, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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 it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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