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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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Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
First Lady
Politician
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
Abigail Smith Adams
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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