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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.

Abigail Adams

Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Ancestor Blessing Hardship Posterity Reap Suffering
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Children Country Goodness Grant Impress May Mind Ornament Step Universal
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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Country Emulation Good Liberty Noble People
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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Accomplishment Brilliant Liberality Pleasure Sentiment Sex
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Abhor Age Custom Men Sex Vassal
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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Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Affecting Bear Circumstance Dispose Hear Most Week
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Blessing Children Country Family Heaven Ornament
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Convicted Creature Dangerous Few Man Power Vested Wisdom
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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Character Genius Heart Hero Life Pacific Repose Time
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Deepest Education First Perhaps Principle Root World
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Fruit Lesson Penetration Retirement Wisdom
When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Happen Know Man Ought Reason

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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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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