If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIt 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 ADAMSThe Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHow 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 ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSYou cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
ABIGAIL ADAMSTo be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMSPosterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThere is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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