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1. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force, though shot by a child.--_Bacon_.
2. Childhood often holds a truth in its feeble fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, and which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.--_Ruskin_.
3. Children always turn toward the light.--_Hare_.
4. Der grosste Mensch bleibt stets ein Menschenkind. [The greatest man always remains a son of man.]--_Goethe_.
5. Dieu aide a trois sortes de personnes,--aux fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes. [G.o.d protects three sorts of people,--fools, children, and drunkards.]--_French_.
6. Enfants et fous sont devins. [Children and fools are soothsayers.]--_French_.
7. Every child is, to a certain extent, a genius, and every genius is, to a certain extent, a child.--_Schopenhauer_.
8. Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.--_Jesus_.
9.
Fede ed innocenzia son reperte Solo ne' pargoletti.
[Faith and innocence we find Only in the children's mind.]
--_Dante_.
10. Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.--_Coleridge_.
11. Genius must be born, and never can be taught.--_Dryden_.
12. Genius should be the child of genius, and every child should be inspired.--_Emerson_.
13. G.o.d is kind to fou [_i.e._ drunken] folk and bairns.--_Scotch_.
14. G.o.d watches over little children and drunkards.--_Russian_.
15. Heaven lies about us in our infancy.--_Wordsworth_.
16. I love G.o.d and little children.--_Jean Paul_.
17. If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.--_Goethe_.
18. Infancy presents body and spirit in unity; the body is all animated.--_Coleridge_.
19. Ingenio non aetate adipiscitur sapientia. [Wisdom comes by nature, not by age.]--_Latin_.
20. Kinder und Narren sprechen die Wahrheit. [Children and fools tell the truth.]--_German_.
21. Kloke kinner ward nit old. [Wise children don't live long.]
--_Frisian_.
22. L'homme est toujours l'enfant, et l'enfant toujours l'homme. [The man is always the child, and the child is always the man.]
--_French_.
23. Mankind at large always resembles frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused.--_Emerson_.
24. Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appet.i.tes are apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.--_Dryden_.
25. Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.--_Carlyle_.
26. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.--_Cowper_.
27. Men fear death as children to go into the dark.--_Bacon_.
28. Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.--_Emerson_.
29. Nothing is so intelligible to the child, nothing seems so natural to him as the marvellous or the supernatural.--_Zacharia_.
30. Odi puerulos praecoci ingenio. [I hate boys of precocious genius.]--_Cicero_.
31. _on oi theoi philousin apothnaeskei neos_. [He whom the G.o.ds love dies young.]--_Menander_.
32. Poeta nascitur, non fit. [A poet is born, not made.]--_Latin_.
33.
Prophete rechts, Prophete links, Das Weltkind in der Mitten.
[Prophets to right of him, prophets to left of him, The world-child in the middle.]--_Goethe_.
34. So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long.
--_Shakespeare_ (Rich. III. iii. 1).
35. Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.--_Jesus_.
36. The best architecture is the expression of the mind of man-hood by the hands of childhood.--_Ruskin_.
37. The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.--_Simons_.
38. The boy's story is the best that is ever told.--_d.i.c.kens_.
39. The child is father of the man.--_Wordsworth_.
40. The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.--_Milton_.
41. The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.--_Emerson_.
42. These moving things, ca'ed wife and weans, Wad move the very heart o' stanes.--_Burns_.
43. They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child.--_Leigh Hunt_.
44. To be young is to be as one of the immortals.--_Hazlitt_.
45. Wage du zu irren und zu traumen: Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel. [Dare thou to err and dream; Oft deep sense a child's play holds.]--_Schiller_.
