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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

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

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

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

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

Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams

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

Remember the Ladies. — Abigail Adams

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is meat for one is not for another
no accounting for fancy. — Abigail Adams

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

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

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

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

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth. — Sharon Kay Penman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough

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

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams — David McCullough

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

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

Remember all men would be tyrants if they could - from a poem by Daniel Defoe, as written by Abigail to John Adams — David McCullough

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

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

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

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

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

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

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