Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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