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
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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 few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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