Abigail Adams Quotes About Heart
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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 a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Abigail Adams
- Born: November 22, 1744
- Died: October 28, 1818
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States