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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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But 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.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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