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“Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.”

Should Wife Mankind Despair Matrimony

Author:William Shakespeare

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.”

Should Firsts Long Problem President Wife Groups Influence Mankind Should Have Handle Discussion Boss Presidency Ongoing First Lady

Book:My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

Source: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

“Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.”

Children Parent Teacher Wife Mankind Students Pride Husband Servant Employee Our Relationship Employers Husband And Wife Relationship With God Children And Parents Teacher And Student

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.”

Book Past Forever Wife Mankind All Things Tyrants Resurrection Anticipation Looking Back Incapable Foe No Hope Fruition

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives.... Wise--deluded man!”

Men Want Made Wise Wife Plans Mankind Thousand Hundred Horse Seven Privilege Luxury Made It Insult Forty Excess Deluded Solomon

Author:Laurence Sterne

“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”

Men Kind Mean States Philosophy Whole Literature Wish Perfect Wife Mankind Married Blessed Add Unions Intimacy Bliss Stable

Author:D. H. Lawrence