Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIt 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
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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 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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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