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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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 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 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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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