You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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’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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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 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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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