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Fathers and Sons

«No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.»
Author: Croesus of Lydia | About: Family, War | Keywords: bury, fathers, Fathers and Sons, sons
«It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.»
«Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.»
«The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.»
«For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? / For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.»
«The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.»
«What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.»
«Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.»
«Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To bring him news of his beloved son's death would be most unwise. And don't mention Frodo or the ring. And say nothing of Aragorn either. In fact, it's best if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took.»
«Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich»

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