"The Child is Father of the Man;" — William Wordsworth

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Beware the fury of a patient man!

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, volume 1

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Source: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost (1677)

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others.

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, part 1 (1759)

All children, except one, grow up.

Source: Peter Pan (1911)

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