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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.
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he 
will not depart read more 
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he 
will not depart from it. 
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin read more
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity
 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and 
great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and read more 
 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and 
great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be 
comforted, because they are not. 
 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. 
It is never too late to have a happy childhood
It is never too late to have a happy childhood
 Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
 Ere the sorrow comes with years?
  They are read more 
 Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
 Ere the sorrow comes with years?
  They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,
   And that cannot stop their tears. 
 [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio 
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call read more 
 [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio 
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call 
changelings. 
 They are idols of hearts and of households;
 They are angels of God in disguise;
  His sunlight read more 
 They are idols of hearts and of households;
 They are angels of God in disguise;
  His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
   His glory still gleams in their eyes;
    Those truants from home and from Heaven
     They have made me more manly and mild;
      And I know now how Jesus could liken
       The kingdom of God to a child.