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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.
lessons shapes pay
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. Al Jourgensen
lessons matter facts
No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it. Chris Colfer
lessons painful evolve
Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has. Cael Sanderson
lessons used teach
I used to teach dance lessons. Eartha Kitt
lessons rewards hell
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going. Bear Grylls
lessons-to-be-learned alive process
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. Denis Waitley
lessons firsts given
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. Eliza Haywood
lessons management investment
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business Charlie Munger
lessons hard-lessons hard
The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.
violin wells
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. Alison Krauss
violin use sometimes
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. Aleksey Igudesman
violin way hearing
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way. Daniel Barenboim
violin limits use
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin. David Garrett
violin
CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
violin kind fame
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less. George Eliot
violin instruments humans
…the violin — that most human of all instruments… Louisa May Alcott
violin
I tried to learn the violin for a while. Peter Wright
violin aging dove
The older the violin, the sweeter the music. Larry McMurtry