...than Pleasure." The playful word duel continued throughout the correspondence. When Jefferson wrote: "My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving fear astern," Adams replied in kind: "I admire your Navigation and should like to sail with you, either in your Bark...

...a pinion, next a spring will give way." There was nothing to be done about it. Meanwhile, he wrote, "I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern." Their exchange of views remained a sustaining exercise for both men. Whatever the state of their physical...

...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...gloomy. There are, I acknowledge, even in the happiest of life, some terrible convulsions, heavy set-offs against the opposite page of the account. I have...

...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. I don't know if the world will be a better place for us in a hundred years. I have trouble envisioning...

...in 1816. He was neither "disgusted" with the present, he insisted, nor "despairing of the future." "I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail; but not ottener than the forebodings of the gloomy." Five years later, in another letter to Adams, he insisted...

...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear in the stern. SILENCE . . A Noiseless Course . Wars and contentions, indeed, fill the pages of history...

...the correspondence of Cicero, whom he and Adams both revered. On April 6, 1816, Jefferson told Adams, "I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern." Rarely did he show this confidence more than in his private letter of July 12, 1816, to the Virginia...

...two years and whose only son lived less than a month, replied, "It is a good world on the whole. ... I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern." Picking up Jefferson's seafaring metaphor, Adams replied, "I admire your navigation and should like...

...easily be said to derive from the life of the body as the mind. Jefferson's reply to Adams proceeded: My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. There are, I acknoledge, even in the happiest life, some terrible convulsions, heavy set-offs against the opposite...

...For what oppression may not a precedent be found in this world. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear...but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. To John Adams, \lonticello, April 8, 1816 Original Intent of the Founders The constitution on which...