Mutual repect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose l...ife we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In medieval society the idea of childhood did not exist; this is not to suggest that children were neglected, forsaken or despised.... The idea of childhood is not to be confused with affection for children; it corresponds to an awareness of the particular nature of childhood, that particular nature which distinguishes the child from he adult, even the young adult. . . . That is why, as soon as the child could live without the constant solicitude of his mother, his nanny or his cradle- rocker, he belonged to adult society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seei...ng or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress of ...the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our tasks are definite. The first to see that no man, woman, or child shall go hungry or unsheltered through the approaching winte...r. The second is to see that our great benevolent agencies for character building, for hospitalization, for care of children and all their vast number of agencies of voluntary solicitude for the less fortunate are maintained in full strength. The third is to maintain the bedrock principle of our liberties by the full mobilization of individual and local resources and responsibilities. The fourth is that we may maintain the spiritual impulses in our people for generous giving and generous service--in the spirit that each is his brother's keeper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedic...ation and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection... and solicitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, bu...t as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge ... and the longest life is too short.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, or ...shut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »