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"It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them."
Life
"I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly."
Life
"My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept."
Emotional
"My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task."
Attention
"Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine."
Time
"Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country."
Home
"Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully."
Music
"The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands."
Nature
"It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man."
Man
"Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations."
Science
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