black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Abigail Adams

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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Dark Disagreeable Humour Men Soul Vastly
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Bursting Heart Losing Loved One Women
No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Confusion Difficulty Great Justice Righteousness Stability Time
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Comparison Domination Ignorance Man Observation Parent Power
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Circumstance Judge Judging Ourselves Person Since
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Anxious Democracy Fate Monarchy Order Perseverance Place Take
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Affecting Bear Circumstance Dispose Hear Most Week
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Accomplishment Brilliant Liberality Pleasure Sentiment Sex
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Hand Husband Power Unlimited
Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Character Hero Life Stateman Walk
My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Accountable Action Maker Remember Son Word
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Blessing Children Country Family Heaven Ornament
But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing

Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abigail Adams Quotes