We can understand how Tennyson was preserved from the fatality
of recklessness, how it is he wore the white flower of a
blameless life, and ruled himself with chivalrous regard for
womanhood, when we study his mother’s face. What such a woman
must have been in the home, and what sort of home it must have
been where she moved like a ministering spirit, we can readily
imagine.--W. J. DAWSON, “The Makers of English Poetry.”
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Alexander the Great never wore any garments save those made
by his mother. These beautiful robes he showed to the Persian
princes who came to visit his court as marks of the skill of
Olympia, who was the daughter of a chieftain, the wife of a
sovereign and the mother of a conqueror.
Every child does not have mother-made garments; but is it not true that
every child is mother-made? And does he not more than continue the
succession of her royal soul?
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