What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat 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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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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