Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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