Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhen men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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