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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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