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«Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
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attend, attend to, at present, capacities, elementary, misunderstand, offspring, requirements, surprising
«Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.»
Author: Henry Fuseli
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«It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Generations,
Love
| Keywords:
affinity, companionship, courtship, created, generations, In a, in a moment, long, moment, offspring, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spiritual, spiritual being, The Offspring, wrong, years
«In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Admiration,
Ignorance,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
admiration, adoration, fill up, offspring, The Offspring
«I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.»
«If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; / Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.»
«O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer; therefore make the hearts of some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits; haply»
«My Lord! make me keep up prayer and from my offspring (too), O our Lord, and accept my prayer. (Abraham 14.40)»
«It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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offspring