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“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”
― Abigail Adams

“...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. 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

“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. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
― Abigail Adams

“I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
― Abigail Adams

“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.”
― Abigail Adams

“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
― Abigail Adams

“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”
― Abigail Adams

“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.”
― Abigail Adams

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
― Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies.”
― Abigail Adams, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

“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.”
― Abigail Adams