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 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the 
womb is his reward.
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 Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the 
womb is his reward.
 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the 
youth.
  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall 
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the 
gate. 
 Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of 
children.  
 Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of 
children. 
 Alas! regardless of their doom,
 The little victims play;
  No sense have they of ills to come,
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 Alas! regardless of their doom,
 The little victims play;
  No sense have they of ills to come,
   Nor care beyond to-day. 
 Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
 Sailed off in a wooden shoe--
  Sailed on a river of read more 
 Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
 Sailed off in a wooden shoe--
  Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of dew. 
 Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no 
memories of outlived sorrow.  
 Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no 
memories of outlived sorrow. 
 Teach your child to hold his tongue,
 He'll learn fast enough to speak.  
 Teach your child to hold his tongue,
 He'll learn fast enough to speak. 
 Women know
 The way to rear up children (to be just);
  They know a simple, merry, tender read more 
 Women know
 The way to rear up children (to be just);
  They know a simple, merry, tender knack
   Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,
    And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
     And kissing full sense into empty words;
      Which things are corals to cut life upon,
       Although such trifles. 
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life read more
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
 The children in Holland take pleasure in making
 What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.  
 The children in Holland take pleasure in making
 What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.