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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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A 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.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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