Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Charles Buxton

Categorized in : Sometimes Criticism Silence

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

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Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

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Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

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All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

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To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

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