Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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What 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.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Well, 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.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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