#infancy

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. ↗

— George Mason

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Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#eternal #extreme #infancy #rest

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#mind #period #primitive #represents #true

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#begins #heaven #infancy #lies #lying

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

#assume #come #designated #growth #hand

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

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

— Samuel Rutherford

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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. ↗

— Robert Owen

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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#faith #illusions #infancy #life #sleep