If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSO, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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 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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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.
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