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Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old.
Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old.
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.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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.]
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
