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 ADAMSI desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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 like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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.
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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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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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