Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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