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- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Speech, May 30, 1884
- The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
- Sidney Madwed
- They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak. - James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
- Charles Buxton
- Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.
- Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)
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