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
ABIGAIL ADAMSArbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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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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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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