"God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children"

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Source : Mary Botham Howitt (1840). “Hope On! Hope Ever! Or,The Boyhood of Felix Law”, p.14

Mary Howitt

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Heart Quotes

“There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.”
“Architects design houses. I live in a home.”
“The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.”

Source : Joseph Story (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: with a preliminary review of the constitutional history of the colonies and states, before the adoption of the Constitution”, p.464
“The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.”
“I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.”
“I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.”
“The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.”
“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,”

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