Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIts never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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