“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.” FirstsMotherLove IsAnimalExistenceDelightSensibilityExpansionAbsorbingMother's Love Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.” YearsFirstsLongSelfMovingJoyMotherTermLove IsAnimalExistenceDelightRangeSensibilityExpansionAbsorbingSuppressionMother's Love Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.” ChildrenLittlesStoriesAgeMotherLove IsWrittenMirrorsStriveSimplicityFolksDelightTalesFamiliarFairyInnateChildren Love Book:A story garden for little children Source: A story garden for little children