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A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she read more
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
 They say man rules the universe,
 That subject shore and main
  Kneel down and bless the empery
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 They say man rules the universe,
 That subject shore and main
  Kneel down and bless the empery
   Of his majestic reign;
    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,
     Man from his throne has hurled,
      For the hand that rocks the cradle
       Is the hand that rules the world. 
 At the cross, her station keeping,
 Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
  Where He hung, the dying Lord.
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 At the cross, her station keeping,
 Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
  Where He hung, the dying Lord.
   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa
    Juxta crucem lacrymosa
     Que pendebat Filius.] 
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
 A woman's love
 Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
  And by its weakness overcomes.  
 A woman's love
 Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
  And by its weakness overcomes. 
 That it should come to this,
 But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
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 That it should come to this,
 But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
  So excellent a king, that was to this
   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
       As if increase of appetite had grown
        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
          A little month, or ere those shoes were old
           With which she followed my poor father's body
            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
               My father's brother, but no more like my father
                Than I to Hercules. 
 If I were hanged on the highest hill,
 Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
  I know read more 
 If I were hanged on the highest hill,
 Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
  I know whose love would follow me still,
   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! 
 And say to mothers what a holy charge
 Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love
  Might read more 
 And say to mothers what a holy charge
 Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love
  Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind. 
 The bearing and the training of a child
 Is woman's wisdom.  
 The bearing and the training of a child
 Is woman's wisdom.