What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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