The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDeliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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