"My bursting heart must find vent at my…" — Abigail Adams
"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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More Bursting Quotes
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live…
— Emily Carr
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
— Barry Gibb
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been…
— Michio Kaku
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If…
— Bonnie Raitt
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The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop…
— Eileen Caddy
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let…
— Georges Bernanos
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Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high'…
— Kenneth Anger
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He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not.…
— Keisha Buchanan
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Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed…
— M. J. Ryan
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