My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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
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These are 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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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