Portrait Plum

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Made by geena

Theme: Quotations
1. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
2. Great necessities call forth great leaders.
3. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
4. I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
5. A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
6. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
7. I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
8. 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 same topic.
9. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
10. Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
11. Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
12. May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times
13. The Habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
14. How much more merciful God than man.
15. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

by Abigail Adams