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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.
rotting flesh vegan
The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me. Bryan Adams
rotting real-food incapable
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. Michael Pollan
rotting too-much dandelions
So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls. John Updike
graves made lows
I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. William Shakespeare
graves lost distress
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as. Houssaye Houssaye
gravestone epitaph please
Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. Edward Abbey
graves ifs
If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave. D. J. MacHale
graves mass people protect thousands
He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq. Jalal Talabani
graves life marked
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. Alexander Smith
graves
I stepped out of my grave and into my life again. Aron Ralston
graves record
We record the reflections, and the reflections will tell us where the graves are.
graves feels humans
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. John Donne