The child is father to the man.

William Wordsworth
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  1. Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory. - Richard Feynman

  2. Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids. - Fiston Mwanza Mujila

  3. A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4. Every man is the son of his own works. - Cervantes

  5. Heredity is nothing but stored environment. - Luther Burbank

More Quotes By William Wordsworth
  1. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

  2. Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

  3. Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

  4. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be...

  5. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest– Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

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