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 ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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