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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThese are 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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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned 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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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 expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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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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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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