Youth

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• Quote 3120

  Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  by: Henry James

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• Quote 3074

  Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending

  by: Anne Bradstreet

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• Quote 3014

  In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2969

  How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2964

  Youth comes but once in a lifetime

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2831

  Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2535

  Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2294

  You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2276

  Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2244

  Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members

  by: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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• Quote 2242

  The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation

  by: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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• Quote 2228

  To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth

  by: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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• Quote 2208

  Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

  by: Charlotte Bronte

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• Quote 1956

  Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of

  by: Jane Austen

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• Quote 1819

  Age is opportunity no less than youth itself

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 1796

  The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1766

  Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in both

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1750

  He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young

  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1721

  Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

  by: Henry Brooke Adams

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• Quote 1545

  Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  by: Francis Bacon

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• Quote 1501

  Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  by: William Somerset Maugham

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• Quote 1472

  Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life

  by: Herbert Henry Asquith

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• Quote 1351

  It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else

  by: Albert Schweitzer

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• Quote 1105

  Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age

  by: Aristotle

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• Quote 1100

  Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young

  by: Theodore Roosevelt

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