What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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