Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined! No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility: Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.
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Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange my youth.
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
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This quote was used by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Gijsbert van Hall, following a street demonstration in 1966, as reported by The New York Times, April 3, 1966, p. 16
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The American ideal is youth handsome, empty youth.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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Youth! Youth! How buoyant are thy hopes! They turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Youth, large, lusty, loving Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
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