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At three years Clara Barton was taken a mile and one-half to school on the shoulders of her brother Stephen; at eleven years she ceased growing, then but five feet three inches. The Author.
When I found myself on a strange horse, in a trooper’s saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton—The memories of her childhood belong to our little town, and are our most precious heritage.
Mrs. Allen L. Joslyn, Oxford, Mass.
Remember that you were once a child, full of childish thoughts and actions. Clara Barton.
Sweetly wild
Were the scenes that charmed me when a child.
Lydia H. Sigourney.
The sports of children satisfy the child. Goldsmith.
Children’s plays are not sports, and should be regarded as their most serious actions. Montague.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. I Corinthians.
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature. C. Lamb.
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
S. Wordsworth.
The scenes of childhood are memories of future years.
J. O. Choules.
I do not like to beat my children—the world will beat them.
Elihu Burritt.
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood
When fond recollections present them to view.
S. Wordsworth.
Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. Schiller.
Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight!
Make me a child again, just for to-night.
Elizabeth A. Allen.
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain;
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
E. A. Allen.
The Baker homestead (Bow, N. H.)—Around the memory thereof cluster the golden days of my childhood.
Mary Baker Eddy.
A long way seems the dear old New England home—its sheltering groves and quiet hills; amid the clustering memories my tears are falling thick and silently like the autumn leaves in forest dells.
Clara Barton.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joseph Joubert.
Children think not of what is past nor of what is to come but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.
La Bruyere.
Women are only children of a larger growth.
Chesterfield—Letter to his son.
The only fun is to do things. Clara Barton.
I pledged myself to strive only for the courage of the right and for the blessedness of true womanhood. Clara Barton.