If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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