Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.
Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Children enhance you.
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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