"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Family, Pleasure, Sorrow

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Identity, People, Life

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Family, Respect, Positivity, Speech

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Family, Children, Deeds

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author

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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

Simplicity

"1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you..."

Character

"Well done is better than well said."

Motivation

"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."

Philosophy

"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Unity

"All would live long but none would be old."

Life

"None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

"God helps them that helps themselves."

"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."

"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon."

"Well done is better than well said."

"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."

"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

"All would live long but none would be old."

"None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing."