Rabindranath Tagore - Child Quotes

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Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.

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April, like a child,
Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers,
Wipes them away and forgets.

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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

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I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

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And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To find in the left one
Its consolation.

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The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

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Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.

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The night is like a dark child just born of her mother day. Millions of stars crowding round its cradle watch it, standing still, afraid lest it should wake up.

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