Mother Quotes
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste for literature.
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Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.
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No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of her child.
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No language can express the power and beauty and heroism and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven.
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Observe how soon, and to what a degree, a mother's influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others!
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Say to mothers, what a holy charge is theirs; with what a kingly power their love might rule the fountains of the newborn mind.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but is always on her heart.
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The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
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The loss of a mother is always severely felt: even though her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please, concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn.
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The mother of all living.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the base, degraded man.
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Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable.
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When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother, - mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.
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