A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.
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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
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Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
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There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
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The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceed in a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be
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Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent
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