Abigail Adams Short Quotes

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Let us be just, and we shall not be miserable.

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All that is well intended is not well received.

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May we... be as ready to do justice as to receive it.

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O dear variety! how pleasing to the human mind is change.

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Business once lost, does not easily return to the old hands.

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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.

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I detest still life — and had rather be jostled, than inanimate.

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I hope the rage for foreign conquest will not ever seize upon Americans.

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Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?

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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

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To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

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However kind sons may be disposed to be, they cannot be daughters to a Mother.

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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I must entreat you to remember me often. I never think your letters half long enough.

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There is nothing that enlivens us so much as having these little creatures round us —

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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

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Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.

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I know the voice of fame to be a mere weathercock, unstable as water and fleeting as a shadow.

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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

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I cannot bear to go to a place unprovided, when a little forethought and care would save me much trouble.

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The expense of living abroad, I always supposed to be high, but my ideas were nowise adequate to the thing.

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No Man has more of my compassion and commiseration than he who Stands upon the giddy height of the pinnacle.

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When a spirit of private animosity is permitted to influence the mind, it always produces an illiberal conduct.

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I am sometimes led to think that human nature is a very perverse thing, and much more given to evil than to good.

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My pen is always freer than my tongue. I have written many things to you that I suppose I never could have talked.

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I have seen and known that much of the conduct of a public ruler, is liable to be misunderstood and misrepresented.

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There is something always melancholy in the Idea of leaving a place for the last time. It is like burying a Friend.

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