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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSHumble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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