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I 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.

Abigail Adams

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 ADAMS

Affecting Bear Circumstance Dispose Hear Most Week
May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Children Country Goodness Grant Impress May Mind Ornament Step Universal
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Action Communication Diversity Language Word
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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Character Genius Heart Hero Life Pacific Repose Time
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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Cruelties Detail History Kingdom Powerful Ravage
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Call Frippery Little Necessary World
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Dark Disagreeable Humour Men Soul Vastly
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Dispute Establish. Admit Naturally Sex Truth Tyrannical
Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Compared Humble Indeed Pomp Witness
These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Desire Genius Hope Live Time Want
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Country Emulation Good Liberty Noble People
I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Desire Favourable Generous Giving Husband Lady Remember Sex
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
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!
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Ambition Difficult Hope Ourselves Pride Private Sacrifice Task
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Anxious Democracy Fate Monarchy Order Perseverance Place Take

I 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.

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