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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Young people need models, not critics...
Young people need models, not critics...
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak read more
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike read more
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy read more
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Youth is wasted on the young.
Youth is wasted on the young.
The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
[Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in
parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]
