Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDeliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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These are the 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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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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