You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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.
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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
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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