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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…
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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to…
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One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man…
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd…
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall…
— Laozi
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There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;…
— Confucius
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
— Walter Scott
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
— Charles Darwin
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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
— Ambrose Bierce
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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there…
— Laozi
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A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.
— Confucius
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Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could…
— Charlotte Bronte
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