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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.

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An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]

An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]

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Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

by Aristotle Found in: Youth Quotes,
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

by James Matthew Barrie Found in: Youth Quotes,
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the read more

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.

by Sara Teasdale Found in: Youth Quotes,
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If youth knew; if age could.

If youth knew; if age could.

by Henri Estienne Found in: Youth Quotes,
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the read more

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.

by Laurence Binyon Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for new read more

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for
settled business.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

by Lord Chesterfield Found in: Youth Quotes,
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

by Alfred North Whitehead Found in: Youth Quotes,
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