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Contending Quotes by 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 of…
- The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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- From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. — Joseph Addison
- If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long… — Patrick Henry
- Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to… — Abraham Lincoln
- By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy… — John Owen
- The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending… — John William Draper
- It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
- Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
- There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is… — Roger L'Estrange