Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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