Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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