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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful, says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Samuel Smiles
Children, Tree, Example
Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.33

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

Samuel Smiles
Children, Mirrors, Afterlife
Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.34

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Samuel Smiles
Children, Women, Evil
Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.41

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Samuel Smiles
Children, Mirrors, Childhood
Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.34

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

Samuel Smiles
Children, Character, Eye
Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.295

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

Samuel Smiles
Children, Issues, Mind
Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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