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!
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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 Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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