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" Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come... "
Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally ... - Page 108
by Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1848 - 286 pages
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Annual Report of the Board of Education

Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1839 - 698 pages
...incentive which will lead that boy to a life of crime. How well has it been said, by a recent writer, " Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist...crooked oak will tell of thee, for centuries to come !" and 'it is equally true, that a single bad impression, imprinted upon the mind of a child, may determine,...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 4

1844 - 398 pages
...honey-sweet, but laeking not the bitter. For eharaeter groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding; And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infaney. Serateh the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The searred and erooked...
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Letters from New York: Second Series

Lydia Maria Child - New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 320 pages
...the education of the young. "For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding} And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infancy. Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries...
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Letters from New York: Second Series

Lydia Maria Child - New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 520 pages
...And the hent unto good or evil mny he given in the hoars of infancy. Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked onk will tell of thee for centuries to come." If ever the evil days of civil strife come upon us, we...
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Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives of the ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House - 1846 - 1194 pages
...incentive which will lead that boy to a life of crime. How well has it been said, by a recent writer, " Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist...crooked oak will tell of thee, for centuries to come !" and it is equally true, that a single bad impression, imprinted upon the mind of a child, may determine,...
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The Family Christian Almanac for the United States, for the Year of Our Lord ...

Almanacs, American - 1851 - 316 pages
...more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have." EARLY TEACHING. — Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell of the act for centuries to come. How forcibly does this figure...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 13

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 pages
...immi* Tapper has these lines : " For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding, And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the...infancy : Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wanton ingly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will toll of thee tor centuries to come....
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Gems from Tupper: Consisting of Extracts from the Following Works ...

Martin Farquhar Tupper - Conduct of life - 1848 - 216 pages
...was terrible unrest, shrieks and groans and thunder. Prov. Phil. i. Rest. EARl.Y EDUCATION. SCEATCH the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it...the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thco for centuries to come ; Even so mayst thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings...
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The Quarterly educational magazine, and record of the Home and ..., Volume 1

Home and colonial school society - 1848 - 412 pages
...the cradle. Early habits cling to us through life ; for as the twig is bent, so the bow will grow. Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, the seared and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come : even so the bent into good or evil...
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Letters from New York: 2d. Ser

Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 pages
...LETTERS FROM NEW- YORK. £ 3 iH ft W S3 C " For character groweth day by day, and all things aid r* p. And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the he Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twi The scarred and crooked oak will tell of...
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