"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

Friendship, Time, Friend, Children, First

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"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

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"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

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"Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform."

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"The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there."

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"The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep."

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"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."

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"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."

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"If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?"

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"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."

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"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."

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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

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"Men are only as great as they are kind."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"A friend to all is a friend to none."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

Warren Buffett, American Businessman

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