My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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It 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
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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 acknowledge myself a unitarian
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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You 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
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What 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.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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