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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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!
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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