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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Abigail Adams

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Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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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.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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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