Children Quotes
These are some of the best 'Children' quotations and sayings.
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A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Above all things endeavor to breed them up in the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they were homely, than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.
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An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
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An infallible way to make your child miserable, is to satisfy all his demands. - Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his wishes will oblige you to stop short at last after he has become head-strong.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.
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Beware of fatiguing them by ill-judged exactness. - If virtue offers itself to the child under a melancholy and constrained aspect, while liberty and license present themselves under an agreeable form, all is lost, and your labor is in vain.
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Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth.
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Call not that man wretched, who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common - inquisitiveness. - Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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Children are excellent physiognomists, and soon discover their real friends. - Luttrell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact they are. - What is childhood but a series of happy delusions?
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Children generally hate to be idle.-All the care then should be, that their busy humor should be constantly employed in something that is of use to them.
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