To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSYou cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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 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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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