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Parents: Quotations from Burning Words

You that are parents, discharge your duty; though you cannot impart grace to your children, yet you may impart knowledge. Let your children know the commandments of God. "Ye shall teach them your children." You are careful to leave your children a portion; leave the oracles of heaven with them; instruct them in the law of God. If God spake all these words, you may well speak them over again to your children.— T. WATSON

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.— NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The first essential, then, if we would train up our children to be pure and kind and spiritual, is to be careful that our daily lives are a model for them to copy. Not that we can be absolutely holy, but we can be Christlike. I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know, without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.— A. E. KITTREDGE