Great Throughts Treasury

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W. Lambert Brittain, fully William Lambert Brittain

If it were possible for children to develop without any interference from the outside world, no special stimulation for their creative work would be necessary. Every child would use his deeply rooted creative impulses without inhibition, confident.

Children | Wisdom | Work | World | Child |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a congenial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Children | Kindness | Life | Life | Praise | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Dorothy Corkille Briggs

When children know uniqueness is respected, they are more likely to put theirs to use.

Children | Wisdom |

Gotthard Booth

Love means that the adults be genuinely concerned with the evolution of the true nature of the child. Children are not able to respond to a love which tries to fashion them according to the concept of the adult, no matter how good the latter's intention may be.

Children | Evolution | Good | Intention | Love | Means | Nature | Wisdom |

Phillips Brooks

While men believe in the possibilities of children being religious, they are largely failing to make them so, because they are offering them not a child's but a man's religion - men's forms of truth and men's forms of experience.

Children | Experience | Man | Men | Religion | Truth | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

Children | Pain | Wisdom | Learn |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Children | Talking | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Earth | Heaven | Life | Life | Object | Play | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Earth | Heaven | Ideas | Object | Wisdom |

Talbot Wilson Chambers

As the bosom of earth blooms again and again, having buried out of sight the dead leaves of autumn, and loosed the frosty bands of winter; so does the heart, in spite of all that melancholy poets write, feel many renewed springs and summers. It is a beautiful and a blessed world we live in, and whilst that life lasts, to lose the enjoyment of it is a sin.

Earth | Enjoyment | Life | Life | Melancholy | Sin | Wisdom | World | Blessed |

Geoffrey Chaucer

My mind to me a kingdom is; such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss that earth affords.

Earth | Mind | Present | Wisdom |

Marcelene Cox

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Children | Glory | Parents | Wisdom |

Chilon of Lacedemon NULL

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal.

Earth | Famous | Men | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Robert Collier

There is nothing on earth you cannot have - once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.

Earth | Nothing | Wisdom |