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My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
Abigail Smith Adams
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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, 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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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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