These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and 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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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