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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.
lamps lava kind
I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them. Bella Heathcote
lamps daylight broads
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human . Diogenes
lamps way peeking
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. Cyril Connolly
lamps guides word-of-god
The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us. Origen
lamps aladdins-lamp mines
Aladdin's lamp is mine. Ira Gershwin
lamps argument scoffing
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp. Plutarch
lamps argument witness
Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
lamps fans dresses
She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps. Maggie Stiefvater
lamps overhead lighting
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. Kate Spade
noon rewrite sharpest though time useless
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft. Hallie Ephron
noon roll
From 11:15 a.m. to noon we take it all down and roll out of there. Tim Halstead
noon
They threw me off the haytruck about noon. James M. Cain
noon hinges
Noon - is the Hinge of Day - ... Emily Dickinson
noon fifty bed
Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon. Mamie Eisenhower
noon prime late
I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me. Stephen King
noon corny
High Noon is a pretty corny movie. Robert Duvall