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Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time.

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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

Agitated, Beautiful, Nature, Trees, Wind

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.

Active, Causes, Degrade, Hands, Historical, Men

You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent. . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. 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, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

Costly, Country, Family, Feelings, Inhabitants, Sweet

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

Details, Kingdoms, Nations, Powerful, Weak

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

262, Adams, Bleed, Page, Pages, Wounded

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

Age, Ages, Men, Sex, Vassals

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

Littles, Looking, Necessary, Rest, World

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

Accomplish, Back, Feet, Forever, Though

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

Accomplishment, Accomplishments, Brilliant, Rejoice, Sentiment, Sex

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

Ignorance, Men, Parent, Mind, Barbarism

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, Men, Soul, Sour, Vastly

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Affectionate, Benevolent, Children, Family, Toil, Wise

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.

Complaining, Hate, Life, Person, Pinches, Shoes

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

Action, Actions, Dear, Remember, Son

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, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

Bears, Circumstances, Disagreeable, Particular, Thing, Week

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Leisure, Lessons, Retirement, Virtues

I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. . . . There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

Believe, Father, Honors, Jesus, Reasoning, Supreme

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

Arise, Disappointment, Disappointments, Notions, Unhappiness

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give. '

Convinced, Like, Man, Men, Power, Wisdom

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

Acknowledge, Religion, Unitarian

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