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 ADAMSThese are the times when a genius wants to live.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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