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
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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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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