It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
ABIGAIL ADAMSA 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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