The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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