Niobe would have been called ...

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.
Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
 Randy Alcorn
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Quotes from the same author

All things change; nothing perishes.
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.