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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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These are 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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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