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| Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. |
| by Charles Lamb |
| An honest man is always a child. |
| by Martial |
| Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. |
| by Henry Ward Beecher |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| A child is a gift from God. He is not an accident or a consequence. |
| by Unknown |
| It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. |
| by George Washington |
| Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for more assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. |
| by Hector Hugh Munro |
| There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. |
| by Vittorio Alfieri |
| A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. |
| by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. |
| by Alexander Pope |
| To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to kn |
| by Jean J. Rousseau |
| Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice. |
| by Sophocles |
| Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. |
| by Robert Southey |
| I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. |
| by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. |
| by Washington Irving |
| The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right. |
| by Mencius |
| When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child? |
| by Nagarjuna |
| How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. |
| by Sir Walter Scott |
| Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. |
| by Akhenaton |
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