A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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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.
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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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There are three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
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My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere.. Be brief.. Be seated.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
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When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
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That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
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