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~ Abigail Adams Quote
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
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.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
~ Abigail Adams Quote
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
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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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