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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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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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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
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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