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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.
tides miscommunication
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in. Bill O'Reilly
tides
Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!
tides poppies bonfire
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. Bayard Taylor
tides flow wealth
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another. Austin O'Malley
tides rising boat
Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats, Anant Agarwal
tides one-thing
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing. Cormac McCarthy
tides body evolution
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. George Santayana
tides sometimes
I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. Jewel
tides details great-nations
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. Gregory Benford
fetch means people stream
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
fetch
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale Edward Coke
fetch saws embarrassed
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. Henri Matisse
fetch horses morning
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields. Meg Rosoff
fetch pat throw
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it. Joel Edgerton
fetch meant tuesday
Then, on Tuesday night, we were told that we could fetch our passports. It meant we could get back home.
fetch mother obey thy unto
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
fetch pathos poignancy work
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required. Michel Faber