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 ADAMSIf much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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