Quote by Abigail Adams
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that corr

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

Other quotes by Abigail Adams

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

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Experience
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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power
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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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Language

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 1959 February 13th

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words. – Jamie Lynn Morris

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We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Im an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts. – Mandy Patinkin

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Learning

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

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Books

I count life just a stuff to try the souls strength on. – Robert Browning

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