Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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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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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.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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