My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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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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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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