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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.

Abigail Adams

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Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
First Lady
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
Abigail Smith Adams
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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