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mother children pride
Charles Dickens 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.
mother determination father
Charles Dickens 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
mother children heart
Charles Dickens 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.
mother sweet pain
Charles Dickens 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.
mother nature garden
Charles Dickens 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...
mother butterfly garden
Charles Dickens 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.
mother errors reform
Charles Simmons If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
mother influence
Charles Stross Biggest influence: my mother.
cities mind vision
Charles Dickens That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
cities mind moral
Charles Caleb Colton I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
cities dying wipe
Alan Moore This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
cities london england
Alan Moore London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
cities doldrums has-beens
Alan Hansen Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
cities space
Alan Bean Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
cities matter towns
Alan Autry A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,
cities community foundation
Alan Autry You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
cities television world
Alaina Huffman If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people missionary christianity
Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
people littles controversy
Charles Stross In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
people waiting lord
Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
people sin made
Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.