We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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 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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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