Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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