You 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
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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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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I 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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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