"If you live for your children, they may……" — Matthew Simpson
"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world."
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36 Quotes by Matthew Simpson
Matthew Simpson has 36 quotes on this site.
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Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A…
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own…
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living…
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes…
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I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and…
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If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made;…
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If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will…
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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
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If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to…
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More Childless Quotes
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
— Julianna Baggott
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is…
— James Cameron
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
— Kate DiCamillo
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I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless.…
— Carol Leifer
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children…
— Bill Cosby
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If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
— Daniel Keys Moran
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth…
— Euripides
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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome…
— Euripides
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