If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf 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 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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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