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Let Your Observations And Comparisons Produce In Your Mind An Abhorrence Of Domination And Power, The Parent Of Slavery, Ignorance, And Barbarism, Which Places Man Upon A Level With His Fellow Tenants Of The Woods.

The Habits Of A Vigorous Mind Are Born In Contending With Difficulties.

I Can Hear Of The Brilliant Accomplishments Of Any Of My Sex With Pleasure And Rejoice In That Liberality Of Sentiment Which Acknowledges Them.

Heaven Grant Me That I May Thus Rejoice In My Children, Thus See Them Ornaments To Their Country, And Blessings To Their Parents.

These Are The 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. The Habits Of A Vigorous Mind Are Formed In Contending With Difficulties. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues. When A Mind Is Raised, And Animated By Scenes That Engage The Heart, Then Those Qualities Which Would Otherwise Lay Dormant, Wake Into Life And Form The Character Of The Hero And The Statesman.