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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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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.

by Anthony Berkeley Found in: Youth Quotes,
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We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices read more

We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

by Mary Mcleod Bethune Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.

by Joseph Addison Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace read more

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

by Baudouin I 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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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 was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

by Richard Harris Barham Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what read more

Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Youth Quotes,
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Youth Quotes,
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