"Learning is not attained by chance, it must……" — Abigail Adams
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
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29 Quotes by Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams has 29 quotes on this site.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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…
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great…
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or…
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of…
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More Ardor Quotes
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred…
— Charles Perrault
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
— Propertius
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the…
— Khalil Gibran
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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle…
— George Eliot
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