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> [Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/wisdom-and-penetration-are-the-fruit-of-experience-not-the-lessons-of/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

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> [Great necessities call out great virtues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/great-necessities-call-out-great-virtues/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

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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...the habits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/it-is-not-in-the-still-calm-of-life-or-the-repose-of-a-pacific-2/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

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## More by Abigail Adams

> [How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/how-difficult-the-task-to-quench-the-fire-and-the-pride-of-private/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/i-can-hear-of-the-brilliant-accomplishments-of-any-of-my-sex-with/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/these-are-the-times-in-which-a-genius-would-wish-to-live-it-is-not-in/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/you-cannot-know-should-i-discribe-to-you-the-feelings-of-a-parent/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/deliver-me-from-your-cold-phlegmatic-preachers-politicians-friends/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-habits-of-a-vigorous-mind-are-born-in-contending-with-difficulties/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-only-chance-for-much-intellectual-improvement-in-the-female-sex/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/many-of-our-disappointments-and-much-of-our-unhappiness-arise-from/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/to-be-good-and-do-good-is-the-whole-duty-of-man-comprised-in-a-few/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/what-is-meat-for-one-is-not-for-another-no-accounting-for-fancy/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/what-is-it-that-affectionate-parents-require-of-their-children-for/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/i-ve-always-felt-that-a-person-s-intelligence-is-directly-reflected/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-house-shakes-with-the-roar-of-the-cannon-no-sleep-for-me-tonight/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/a-little-of-what-you-call-frippery-is-very-necessary-towards-looking/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

> [Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/well-knowledge-is-a-fine-thing-and-mother-eve-thought-so-but-she/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

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