When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned 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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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These are 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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with 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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