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Abigail Adams quotes: Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Abigail Adams quotes: O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

Abigail Adams quotes: Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Abigail Adams quotes: I hate to complain ... No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

I hate to complain ... No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

Abigail Adams quotes: Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Abigail Adams quotes: Great necessities call out great virtues.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams quotes: Remember the Ladies.

Remember the Ladies.

Abigail Adams quotes: To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

Abigail Adams quotes: What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

Abigail Adams quotes: Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Abigail Adams quotes: 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.

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.

Abigail Adams quotes: We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams quotes: Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Abigail Adams quotes: What is meat for one is not for anotherno accounting for fancy.

What is meat for one is not for another
no accounting for fancy.

Abigail Adams quotes: I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

Abigail Adams quotes: I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams quotes: Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Abigail Adams quotes: From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Abigail Adams quotes: Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams quotes: My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Abigail Adams quotes: When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Abigail Adams quotes: But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Abigail Adams quotes: If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Abigail Adams quotes: The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Abigail Adams quotes: 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.

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.

Abigail Adams quotes: Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

Abigail Adams quotes: The house shakes ... with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

The house shakes ... with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

Abigail Adams quotes: Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams quotes: A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Abigail Adams quotes: 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

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

Abigail Adams quotes: These are the times when a genius wants to live.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

Abigail Adams quotes: Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Abigail Adams quotes: The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Abigail Adams quotes: Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Abigail Adams quotes: If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Abigail Adams quotes: Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.