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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

Abigail Adams
Love, Taken, Heart
Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.1008, Library of America

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

Abigail Adams
Eye, Heart, Wicked
Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.748, Library of America

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

Abigail Adams
Sleep, House, Revolution

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

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

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

Abigail Adams
Pages, Wounded

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

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

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

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

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

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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