Abigail Adams on difficulty
Abigail Adams82 quotes“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams
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More on difficulty
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.
Ralph MarstonRalph Marston The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form – the one of the particles, the other of the waves – are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
Werner HeisenbergWerner Heisenberg If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation.
Alan BersinAlan Bersin We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way – stay out.
Agnes MacphailAgnes Macphail The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich
