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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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Caleb Colton
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
mouths enough bigs
No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing. Alan Watts
mouths shots knows
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is. Al Pacino
mouths sometimes grammar
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. David Sedaris
mouths giddy
Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up. Buddy Ebsen
mouths speak mute
Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph. William Shakespeare
mouths shapes flesh
Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. Audre Lorde
mouths have-faith words-you-speak
Have faith. The Lord can magnify the words you speak and make them mighty. God doesn’t ask you to convert but rather to open your mouths. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
mouths film
I'm me, I live from film to mouth. Alan Rudolph
mouths ghost
He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth... Charlaine Harris
tongue good-things wells
Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman. Charles Dickens
tongue celts
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me. Alan Rickman
tongue speak
I will speak with a straight tongue. Chief Joseph
tongue modesty duty
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. William Shakespeare
tongue suspicion ready
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! William Shakespeare
tongue fool pairs
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. William Shakespeare
tongue maidens
A maiden hath no tongue--but thought. William Shakespeare
tongue harmony enchanting
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. William Shakespeare
tongue sun lips
Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips Audre Lorde