Abigail Adams

Day 325

~Form Benjamin Rush’s Sketches about Abigail Adams~

“The pleasures of these evenings [in conversation with John Adams] was much enhanced by the society of Mrs. Adams, who in point of talent, knowledge, virtue, and female accomplishments was in every respect fitted to be the friend and companion of her husband in all his different and successive stations, of private citizen, member of Congress, foreign minister, Vice President and President of the United States.”

 

 

 

 

A fine thing

Day 279

“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~

 

 

 

The Fruit of Experience

Day 269

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure."

~Abigail Adams~ 

Learning attained by diligence

Day 241

“Learning is not attained by chance It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
~Abigail Adams~

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A person's intelligence...

Day 238

“I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”
~Abigail Adams~

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Have you ever found in history,

Day 230 

"Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue?... And without virtue, there can be no political liberty.… Will you tell me how to prevent riches from becoming the effects of temperance and industry? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?...I believe no effort in favor is lost..."

~John Adams~

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We have...

Day 227

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
~Abigail Adams~

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Great Virtues

Day 210

"Great necessities call out great virtues."
~Abigail Adams~

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