"To a real child anything will serve as…" — John Cowper Powys
"To a real child anything will serve as a toy."
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15 Quotes by John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys has 15 quotes on this site.
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Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,…
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Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget…
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Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads…
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If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how…
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
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Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity…
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The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
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What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a…
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
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Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
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The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is…
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More Child Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
— Tyra Banks
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