I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSSome disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
ABIGAIL ADAMSMany of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven 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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