The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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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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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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