Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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