If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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 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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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