I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers
shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins
of fathers.--DICKENS.
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other
mothers venerable.--RICHTER.
The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal
lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside,
are never effaced entirely from the soul.--LAMENNAIS.
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.--GEORGE HERBERT.
"An ounce of mother," says the Spanish proverb, "is worth a pound of
clergy."--T.W. HIGGINSON.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
--HOLMES.
A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and
he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or
silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond
devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives
us.--BOVEE.
All that I am, my mother made me.--J.Q. ADAMS.
MOURNING.--He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.--YOUNG.
Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun
will shine to-morrow.--RICHTER.
Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to
the living, and the dead know it not.--XENOPHON.
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who
belong to them.
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