I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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