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Letter "P" » parent
«The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.»
«The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
descendant, parent, The Descendants
«There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.»
«Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
instruction, parent, schoolmaster, schoolmasters
«Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.»
«There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.»
«The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, injures, loaded, parent, severity, unjustifiable
«Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.»
«Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crime, modern, parent, starvation
«To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
carelessness, looks, misfortune, parent, parenting, regarded
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