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.
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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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