The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone is seeking, ” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he...
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Hermann Hesse
Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.
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Shannon L. Alder
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By David McCullough
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
