Henry Wadsworth

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    A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (20th century)

    There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Between the dark and the daylight,
    When the night is beginning to lower,
    Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
    That is known as the Children’s Hour.
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)