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“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”
“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.”
“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
“Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.”
“The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.”
“What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“For hope is but the dream of those that wake.”
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”
“Art is long and time is fleeting.”
“The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.”
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.”
“The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.”
“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ”
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