What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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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
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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