Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIs it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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