My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWell, 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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 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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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