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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.

Abigail Adams

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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Blessed Collected Day Family Future Own Roof
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Country Dare Equally Guarded Inattentive Person Protected Say
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Dispute Establish. Admit Naturally Sex Truth Tyrannical
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Believe Bustle Desirable Life Man Situation
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Affecting Bear Circumstance Dispose Hear Most Week
No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Determine Equality Foment Memorable Paid Particular Rebellion Women
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Believe Father Jesus Knowledge Little More Primitive Simplicity Unitarian
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Accounting Fancy Meat One
Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Compared Humble Indeed Pomp Witness
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Bleed John Adam Page Wounded
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Confusion Difficulty Great Justice Righteousness Stability Time
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Convinced Dangerous Grasping Man More
The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Barbarism Ignorance Level Place Slavery Tenant Wood

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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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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