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“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”

Children Character Shows Mother Force Pleasure Virtue Duty Advantage Constant Protection Fulfillment Enjoyment Helpless Strict Alliances

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.”

“charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.”

Should Mistake Compassion Strange Duty Intellectual Paid Charity Calm Debt Fulfillment Merit Severe

Book:The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

“Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?”

Desire Expression Duty Neighbor Fulfillment

Author:Dag Hammarskjold