When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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
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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
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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