But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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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 benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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