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“The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Those waters from me which I would have stopped;
But I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, vi)
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“The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child
with the obligation to become the servant of a man.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Getting Married
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“And say to mothers what a holy charge
Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love
Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.”
Lydia Huntley Sigourney Quotes Source: The Mother of Washington (l. 33)
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“Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well/
My mother.”
Anne Taylor (Mrs. Gilbert) Quotes Source: My Mother (st. 6)
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“The bearing and the training of a child
Is woman's wisdom.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: Princess (canto V, l. 456)
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“Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: Princess (canto VII, l. 308)
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“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes Source: Vanity Fair (vol. II, ch. XII)
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“They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.”
William Ross Wallace Quotes Source: What Rules the World, written about 1865-66
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No
man does. That is his.”
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde) Quotes Source: Importance of Being Earnest (act I)
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