from a book written in the 1800s:
"No wife can overestimate the influence she wields over her husband, or the measure in which his character, his career, and his very destiny are laid in her hands for shaping. How can she be sure that her influence over her husband will be for good, that hers will be a better man, more successful in his career and more happy, because she is his wife? Not by .. perpetual preaching and lecturing on a husband's duties and on manly character." but rather, "... by being in the very depths of her soul, in every thought and impulse of her heart and in every fiber of her nature, a true and noble woman."
inspiring! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteJust a note. The above picture is of my great grandmother Aimee when she was about 13 years old. Ironically my great grandmother did not exhibit much of what the quote calls us to and brought sorrow and bitterness to herself and her husband.
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