My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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