“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.