If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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.
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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