To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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