My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. 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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