Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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These are 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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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