These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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