"It is to me a most affecting thing……" — Abigail Adams
"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."
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29 Quotes by Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams has 29 quotes on this site.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can…
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great…
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
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More Affecting Quotes
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
— Kenneth Branagh
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
— Edmund Burke
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my…
— JWoww
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in…
— John Wooden
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If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do…
— Garry McCarthy
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen…
— James Madison
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Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be…
— Mortimer Adler
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we…
— Melinda Gates
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