The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThese are the times when a genius wants to live.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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