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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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