"Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving."

Family, Justice, Recognition, Values, Emotion

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"Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving."

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

Advice

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

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"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

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"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."

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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

Sympathy

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."

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"So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be."

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"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"

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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

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