Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.’
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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