Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
ABIGAIL ADAMSPosterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to 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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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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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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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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