Abigail Adams on ornament
Abigail Adams82 quotes“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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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 AdamsAbigail Adams Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna’s heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel 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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