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children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
stranger retiring pauses
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
stranger reason absurd
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned. Charlotte Bronte
stranger
The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
stranger my-favorite crushed
I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that. Boyd Holbrook
stranger oldest-friends
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. Ann Brashares
stranger truth
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. Mira Nair
stranger endangered-species species
Strangers are an endangered species ... Adrienne Rich
stranger unison estrangement
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Jane Austen
stranger
I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me. John Abraham
ceases man simply
What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine. Ashwin Sanghi
cease fears pen
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. John Keats
ceases hand heart pray
When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray Irish Sayings
ceases limit
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Edmund Burke
cease people point simply
The point simply is to accommodate people, to get them where they need to be before we cease the operation.
cease develop learning passion
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
cease hope life seems
It seems as if life and hope must cease together. Anne Bronte
cease course dead learning people time
Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning. Meles Zenawi
cease
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. Shirley MacLaine