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 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. 
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly read more
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
 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. 
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.
 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. 
 By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,
 The sports of children satisfy the child.  
 By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,
 The sports of children satisfy the child. 
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning read more
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, 
I thought as a read more 
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, 
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away 
childish things. 
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.