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Letter "Y" » Youth
«The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Elderly,
Youth
| Keywords:
aspirations, reminiscence, reminiscences
«Time - our youth - it never really goes, does it? It is all in our minds»
«Time, the subtle thief of youth»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Time,
Youth
| Keywords:
subtle, thief, Thief of Time
«To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Beginning,
Choice,
Men,
Success,
Youth
| Keywords:
competence, elements, honorable, taint, tainted, Taints, The Young Man, young man
«Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age»
«To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable»
«To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies»
«Those whom the gods love grow young.»
«Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Youth
| Keywords:
good fortune, outset, passionate, profound, touched
«The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
admiration, admires, fails, hero, intoxicate, intoxicated, intoxicates, intoxicating, of his own, projection, projections
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