Creative Quotations from John Adams (1735-1826) born on Oct 30 2nd US president; The Atlas of Independence was a signer of the Declaration of Independence;

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Creative Quotations from John Adams (1735-1826) born on Oct 30 2nd US president; The Atlas of Independence was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; he drew up the Treaty of Paris, 1793.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.

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