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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other read more
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but read more
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- read more
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
The love received is the love that is saved.
The love received is the love that is saved.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
