I have always appreciated Abigail Adam's thoughtful insight as her husband's help meet/confidant and as she instructed her children. This is by far my favorite, spoken to John Quincy...
“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.”
―
Abigail Adams
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