It seems as if she had given these treasures and left him alone -- to use them, or lose them, apply them, or misapply them, according to his own choice. This is all that we can do with children . . .
There was never a night that had no morn.
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
Keep what is worth keeping -- And with the breath of kindness Blow the rest away.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
The Little Lame Prince," ch. 2, 1875.
R:
The Golden Gate," "Mulock's Poems, New and Old," 1888.
A:
In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.