Abigail Adams on contrary
Abigail Adams82 quotes“There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.”
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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
Abigail AdamsAbigail 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 be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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 AdamsAbigail Adams A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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 AdamsAbigail Adams If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno All concord’s born of contraries.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Paul the ApostlePaul the Apostle Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
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