Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHistory is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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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
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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