Character Quote by Abigail Adams

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.” quote by Abigail Adams — Download Open image

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Abigail Adams

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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

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What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

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