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mother children pride
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. Charles Dickens
mother determination father
what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been Charles Dickens
mother children heart
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom. Charles Dickens
mother sweet pain
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. Charles Dickens
mother nature garden
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind... Charles Dickens
mother nature children
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment." Charles Dickens
mother butterfly garden
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved. Charles Dickens
mother abode wells
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode. Charles Dickens
mother errors reform
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. Charles Simmons
fool guides
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. Charles Spurgeon
fool cry-the-beloved-country quiet
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. Alan Paton
fool
And thus love makes fools of us all. Chris Cleave
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
fool peculiar bad-mood
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. David D. Burns
fool emotion aim
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. Casey Affleck
fool
Wishers were ever fools. William Shakespeare
fool slave life-time
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool. William Shakespeare
fool slander rail
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail. William Shakespeare
witch-doctors pieces superstitions
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. Chinua Achebe
witch easier outlander
It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. Diana Gabaldon
witch taxes cents
Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt. Anthea Turner
witch heard
I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you. Christine O'Donnell
witch
is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission. Brian Blair
witch-doctors medicine politics
Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine. Peter Schiff
witch nicholson
I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher. Madchen Amick
witch bohemian certain
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm Michael Cunningham
witch wands elders
No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will. J. K. Rowling