To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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’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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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