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• These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, Wish, Endurance

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

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

  Abigail Adams

  Pages, Wounded

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• 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

  Dark, Men, Soul

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.214

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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, 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.

  Abigail Adams

  Perseverance, Fate, Order

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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• Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

  Abigail Adams

  Daughter, Mother, Female Empowerment

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.419

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• The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Class, Intellectual

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.24

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

  Abigail Adams

  Meat, Fancy, Accounting

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1970). “Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I acknowledge myself a unitarian

  Abigail Adams

  Religion, Unitarian, Acknowledge

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• These are the times when a genius wants to live.

  Abigail Adams

  Genius, Want

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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

  Abigail Adams

  Beautiful, Nature, Wind

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.212

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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.

  Abigail Adams

  Power, Rights, Government

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.81

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• 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

  Sex, Accomplishment, Brilliant

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.127

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