When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
ABIGAIL ADAMSA 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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.
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