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“Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.”

Christian Joy Mother Wife Son Sorrow Ideals Blessed Saint Thrones Womanhood Footsteps Blessed Mother

Author:John Vianney

“With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.”

Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier

“I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.”

Made Mother Father Decision Sorrow Responsible Blame Mother And Father Chechnya

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.”

Wells Joy Mother Evil Sorrow Terror Denial Sweetness Recognise

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.”

Knows Feels Mean Mother Silence Known Alive Terrible Sorrow Do You Know

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.”

Mother Dies My Own Sorrow Paid Bills Hated Looking Forward Overrated

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.”

Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Grief Hair Sorrow Lifetime Swept Away

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.”

Firsts Humans Joy Mother Religious Race Sorrow Universal Human Race Transformed Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Nativity

Author:John of Damascus