<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361238" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chiding</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reproach will seldom mend the young,<br> If they are left to need it;<br>The breath of love must stir the tongue,<br> If you would have them heed it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How oft we see a child caressed<br> For little faults and failings,<br>Which should have been at first suppressed<br> To save the after railings!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, when the heart would go astray,<br> You would the passion smother,<br>You must not tear the charm away,<br> But substitute another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus it is pleasant to be led,<br> If he who leads will measure<br>The heart's affection by the head,<br> And make pursuit a pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Bates">David Bates</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361238" data-title="Chiding de David Bates" data-description="Reproach will seldom mend the young, If they are left to need it; The breath of love must stir the tongue, If you would have them heed it. How oft we see a child caressed For little faults and failings, Which should have been at first suppress..."></div> </div> </div>

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