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- If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.
- Author Unknown
- The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
- Author Unknown
- Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.
- Author Unknown
- The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
- O. A. Battista
- Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
- Black Elk
- Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow - the wholesome warmth necessary to make the heart-blood circulate healthily and freely; unhappiness - the chilling pressure which produces here an inflammation, there an excrescence and worst, of all, "the mind's green and yellow sickness" - ill temper.
- Ann E. Bray
- Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
- Marcelene Cox
- The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
- Isadora Duncan
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