A Letter From Abraham Lincoln To His Son’s Teacher

 

My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All adventures that probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage.

So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him – but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero, that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.

Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school, teacher, it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win.

Teach him to be gentle with people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if you can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him if you can – how to laugh when he is sad, teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success. Teach him to scoff at cynics.

Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if every one tell him they are wrong.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone else is doing it. Teach him to listen to every one, but teach him also to filters all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him to sell his talents and brains to the highest bidder but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul. Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patient to be brave. Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind, in God.

This is the order, teacher but see what best you can do. He is such a nice little boy and he is my son.

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Royal and Iconic Wedding Gowns on Display.

 

Queen Victoria. In 1840

Wedding dress of Louise of Sweden, 1850

Katharine Hepburn opted for an unusually ornate gown to say her vows in for her wedding to Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928.

Elizabeth Taylor’s first wedding dress from her 1950

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's wedding dress worn Sept.12, 1953 when she married John F. Kennedy

1st May 1967 Elvis and Priscilla Presley attire

Wallis Simpson married the Duke of Windsor in 1937

Elizabeth II - Wedding Dress

Princess Margaret Wedding Dress

Lady Diana's Wedding Dress

Kate Middleton’s Dress 

Meghan´s Wedding Dress 

 Princess Eugenie

Princess Beatrice's wedding dress loaned to her by the Queen

Grace Kelly Wedding Dress

                           Wedding dress worn by Queen Fabiola of Belgium, 1960

Princess Madeleine of Sweden Wedding Dress

 Rania al Yassin June 10, 1993

Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece 

Queen Letizia of Spain's wedding dress was designed by Manuel Pertegaz.

Fotografia de Peter Macdiarmid no 

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“Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...” ― Sandhya Jane

“I like the woman you became better than the girl you were. I like the story you’ve written on your face”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“Aging is the knowledge and maturity is the wisdom”
― J. Tisa

“Aging is the divine and maturity is the blessing”
― J. Nedumaan

“Aging is not the process of making you old and ugly, aging is the process of making you bold and beautiful”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“As you grow older; keeping warm becomes more important than looking good.”
― Ulysses Brave

“Old age is meant to slow us down just before the final destination; otherwise reaching the stop would be too abrupt." 
― Lamine Pearlheart

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Sewing each day keeps the crazy away.

 

 It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

                              A clean house is a sign of a broken sewing machine.                                                       

My biggest fear is that when I die my husband will sell all my craft supplies for what I told him they cost.

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            I just don’t want to look back and think that I should have bought that fabric.

                  Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.             

                                Of course I am working. It is a power tool with thread.

                                I am not a hoarder. I just need a bigger craft room.

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