"The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes."
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"Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow."
"For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood."
"Youth to itself rebels, though none else near."
"For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears."
"Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth"
"I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you."
"You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future."
"Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth."
"What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs."
"Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own."
"O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness."
"Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself."
"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period."
"Youth is everywhere in place."
"Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth."
"I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth."
"There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry."
"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."
"Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age."