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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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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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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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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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