Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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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
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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 parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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