My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDeliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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