The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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