“ Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people. ”
- Islom Karimov- Copy
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“ Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Giving a few dollars to a blind beggar or a destitute orphan may be characterized as charity; a large gift of money to an educational institution or a symphony orchestra is philanthropy. ”
- Carl Bakal- Copy
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“ Do right to the widows, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked. ”
- Apocrypha- Copy
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“ Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. ”
- Rosalia Castro- Copy
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“ The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness. ”
- Prophet Mohammad- Copy
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“ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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