--- title: "1 Sorrow Tenderness Quotes By Abigail Adams" description: "1 Sorrow Tenderness quotes by Abigail Adams. Plus more from Abigail Adams and more Sorrow Tenderness sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/abigail-adams-9209_dear-mother_but-the-heavy-stroke-which-most-of-all-d_2828533.jpg" --- > [“But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. I cannot overcome my too selfish sorrow, all her tenderness towards me, her care and anxiety for my welfare at all times, her watchfulness over my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/but-the-heavy-stroke-which-most-of-all-distresses-me-is-my-dear/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/abigail-adams-9209_dear-mother_but-the-heavy-stroke-which-most-of-all-d_2828533.jpg) ## More by Abigail Adams > [How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/how-difficult-the-task-to-quench-the-fire-and-the-pride-of-private/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/i-can-hear-of-the-brilliant-accomplishments-of-any-of-my-sex-with/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/these-are-the-times-in-which-a-genius-would-wish-to-live-it-is-not-in/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/you-cannot-know-should-i-discribe-to-you-the-feelings-of-a-parent/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/deliver-me-from-your-cold-phlegmatic-preachers-politicians-friends/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-habits-of-a-vigorous-mind-are-born-in-contending-with-difficulties/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-only-chance-for-much-intellectual-improvement-in-the-female-sex/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/many-of-our-disappointments-and-much-of-our-unhappiness-arise-from/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/to-be-good-and-do-good-is-the-whole-duty-of-man-comprised-in-a-few/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/what-is-meat-for-one-is-not-for-another-no-accounting-for-fancy/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/what-is-it-that-affectionate-parents-require-of-their-children-for/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/i-ve-always-felt-that-a-person-s-intelligence-is-directly-reflected/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-house-shakes-with-the-roar-of-the-cannon-no-sleep-for-me-tonight/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/a-little-of-what-you-call-frippery-is-very-necessary-towards-looking/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) > [Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/well-knowledge-is-a-fine-thing-and-mother-eve-thought-so-but-she/) [Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sorrow-tenderness/abigail-adams/#itemlist", "name": "1 Sorrow Tenderness Quotes By Abigail Adams", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. 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I might have been striped of my children as many others have been. I might o! forbid it Heaven, I might have been left a solitary widow. Still I have many blessing left, many comforts to be thankfull for, and rejoice in. I am not left to mourn as one without hope. My dear parent knew in whom she had Believed...The violence of her disease soon weakned her so that she was unable to converse, but whenever she could speak, she testified her willingness to leave the world and an intire resignation to the Divine Will. 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