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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSYou 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
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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