What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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