My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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