My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI’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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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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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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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