Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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