Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Abigail Adams
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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
The Quotable Abigail Adams
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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.
We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
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.
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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.
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.