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.
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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I 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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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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