Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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