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The children in Holland take pleasure in making
What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Old Nursery Rhyme
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'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Philaster (act V, sc. 2, l. 15)
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away
childish things.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 11)
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and
great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be
comforted, because they are not.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. II, v. 18)
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A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the
heaviness of his mother.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. X, v. 1)
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 6)
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Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 29)
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Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the
youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the
gate.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXVII, v. 3-5)
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. CXXVIII, v. 3)
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Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just);
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,
And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words;
Which things are corals to cut life upon,
Although such trifles.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 48)
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,
And that cannot stop their tears.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: The Cry of the Children
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[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call
changelings.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sect. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 6, subsect. 5)
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Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Beppo
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A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 25)
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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
[Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XII)
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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of
children.
Author: Richard Henry Dana
Source: The Idle Man--Domestic Life
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They are idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
His glory still gleams in their eyes;
Those truants from home and from Heaven
They have made me more manly and mild;
And I know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.
Author: Charles M. Dickinson
Source: The Children
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When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
The little one gather around me,
To bid me good-night and be kissed;
On, the little white arms that encircle
My neck in their tender embrace
Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,
Shedding sunshine of love on my face.
Author: Charles M. Dickinson
Source: The Children
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My lovely living Boy,
My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week, Fourth Day (bk. II)
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no
memories of outlived sorrow.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. I, ch. IX)
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Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe--
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a sea of dew.
Author: Eugene Field
Source: Wynken, Blynken and Nod
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Teach your child to hold his tongue,
He'll learn fast enough to speak.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard Maxims
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,
The sports of children satisfy the child.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 153)
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Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 6)
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