These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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