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• Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mother, Men, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Teenage, Adultery

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• But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Morning, Father

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton (chapter IV), 1908.

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• Tis aye a solemn thing to me
  To look upon a babe that sleeps--
  Wearing in its spirit-deeps
  The unrevealed mystery
  Of its Adam's taint and woe,
  Which, when they revealed lie,
  Will not let it slumber so.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lying, Sleep, Looks

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783”

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• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mother, Mean, Son

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47

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• The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses
  are still truly adjusted to each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inward, Lovers, One With Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Infancy Is, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.49, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

  Edward Abbey

  Knowing, Culture, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Infancy Is, History

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Knowledge, Science

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Lying, Boys

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Infancy Is, Literature, Poet

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.28

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• Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

  Murray Banks

  Sex, Adults, Adultery

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

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• Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

  Charles Osgood

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

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• From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, World, Fantastic

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• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

  John Flavel

  Baby, Religious, Prayer

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Art, Responsibility, Hands

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• Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

  Samuel Rutherford

  Infancy Is, Grace, Glory

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.171

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• Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct.

  Robert Owen

  Believe, Errors, Religion

  "Debate on the Evidences of Christianity".

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Lying, Heaven

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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