Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSSome disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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 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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