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• Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.

  Anita Silvey

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I am as true as truth's simplicity,
  And simpler than the infancy of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Simplicity, Constancy

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [176]

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• in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Baby, Heard, Eloquent

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.129

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• ... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

  Catharine Beecher

  Civilization, Race, History

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.37

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• The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.

  Kevin Conroy

  Mean, Games, Lucky

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.

  Bryan Procter

  Years, Long, Joy

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• If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

  Sean O Faolain

  Purple, Race, Flames

  1947 The Irish.

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Memorable, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

  William Mountford

  Believe, Childhood, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2

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• We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 30

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• The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Men, Church

  John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Fall, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”

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• I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

  David Gordon Green

  Years, Desire, Adults

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.

  Brian Tracy

  Attitude, Sibling, Self Esteem

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• He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Used, Faculty, Contempt

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• No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Winning, Champion

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• For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

  Aristotle

  Men, Animal, Way

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Deeds, Achieve, Ill

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”

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• Admiration spoils all from infancy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Admiration, Spoil

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Children, Feet, Mind

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.114, Lulu.com

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• The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

  Agnes Repplier

  Voice, Storytelling, Storyteller

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wall, Men, Insecurity

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.100, Spectra

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• As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.

  Will Davis

  Christian, Spiritual, Growing Up

  Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.150, Revell

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• We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.67

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• I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.

  Frances Wright

  Sex, Children, Struggle

  Letter to Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, on February 11, 1822. "Lafayette in Two Worlds" by Lloyd Kramer, p. 158, 1996.

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