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
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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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These are the 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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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!
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