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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.]

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

by Euripides Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling read more

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

by Marcel Proust Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and
flourishing in an immortal youth.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and
flourishing in an immortal youth.

by Isaac Barrow Found in: Youth Quotes,
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Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
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Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away: poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene
That men call age, and those who would have been
Their sons, they gave their immortality.

by Rupert Brooke 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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

by Dame Mary Gilmore Found in: Youth Quotes,
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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.

by Samuel Ullman 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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