Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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These are the 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.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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