If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMSHeaven 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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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