Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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!
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