Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am ...

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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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

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!
 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
It is freezing fit to split a stone.
 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
True friendship is never serene.
 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne