Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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