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«Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.»

Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | Keywords: affection, ambition, angelic, As of, daughter, daughters, express, Father, fathering, Fathers and Sons, purely, sons, Son o, wives

«And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves»

Author: Robert Treat Paine | Keywords: bears, Columbia, rolls, sons, Sons of, waves

«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»

Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: binding, bunch, bundle, bundles, bundling, challenged, differ, ease, farmer, for anything, in parallel, in vain, laying, match, My Sons, one by one, parallel, paralleled, pick up, quarrelsome, separate, sons, sticks, The Father, the sticks, undone, untie, untied, untying

«Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.»

Author: Epictetus | Keywords: careful, hopes, ignorant, instructed, instructing, instructs, rich, sons, Son o, wealth| Occasions: Graduation

«Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons»

Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Peace, War | Keywords: bury, Croesus, fathers, sons

«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.»

Author: Marlene Dietrich (Actress) | About: Competence, Family | Keywords: abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, delegate, delegated, delegates, delegating, dilemma, dilemmas, duties, incompetence, paradox, realizing, sons

«But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business: / And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: Aaron, burnt, candlestick, charge, evening, forsaken, forsaking, incense, incensed, lamps, minister, order of business, priests, sacrifices, sons, Sons of, table, thereof

«Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: / But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, / To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: adoption, bondage, elements, even so, his son, in bondage, redeem, sons, The Elements

«Books are immortal sons deifying their sires»

Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Books | Keywords: deified, deify, deifying, immortal, immortals, sire, sires, sons, Son o

«Good wombs have borne bad sons.»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: borne, Out of the Womb, sons, wombs

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