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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.
abortion sacred serious
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. Carter Heyward
abortion fit casual
Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive. Camille Paglia
abortion guilty
Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty. Caitlin Moran
abortion wade firsts
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade. Dennis Kucinich
abortion death-penalty timing
Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh? Dennis Miller
abortion chickens
I don't eat chicken abortions! Cecily von Ziegesar
abortion mind black
Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to. Alan Keyes
abortion against-abortion
I'm against abortion. Charles Evers
abortion ears medical
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. Bob McDonnell
poison sugar
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words William Shakespeare
poison looks anwr
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. Ben Nelson
poison delight causes
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there. Eliphas Levi
poisoned scientific vague
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way. Eric Betzig
poison body belief
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him. A. E. Housman
poison havens
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. D. H. Lawrence
poison raisins tarts
The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ... Christopher Paolini
poison cures
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood. Anne Bishop
poison truth-is certain
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Andre Maurois