What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThese are the times when a genius wants to live.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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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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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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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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