Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

John Adams
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More Quotes By John Adams
  1. Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

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

  3. Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

  4. ..Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had...

  5. I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

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