Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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These are 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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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