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"What is real good?"

I asked in a musing mood:

“Order,” said the law court;

“Knowledge,” said the school;

“Truth,” said the wise man;

“Pleasure,” said the fool;

“Love,” said the maiden;

“Beauty,” said the page;

“Freedom,” said the dreamer;

“Home,” said the sage;

“Fame,” said the soldier;

“Equity,” said the seer-

Spake my heart full sadly:

“The answer is not here;”

Then, within my bosom, softly, this I heard:

“Each heart holds the secret-

Kindness is the word.”

John Boyle O’Reilly, The Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations

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There is no institution more vital to our nation’s survival than the American family.  Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished.  Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.  

-Ronald Reagan (1981)

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Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; longsuffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; truth is love on the battlefield; meekness is love at school; and temperance is love in training.  So it is love all the way; love at the top, and love at the bottom, and all the way along down this list of graces.

-Dwight L. Moody

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By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father.  A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.  The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.  And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still.  

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