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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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 acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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