When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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What 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.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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