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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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