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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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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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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, 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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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