"Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge."
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"Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
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"The spirits run riot in youth."
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"Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life."
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"Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind."
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"Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?"
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"Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age."
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"An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body."
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"The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age."
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"Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason."
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"Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes."
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"Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young."
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"Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth."
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"A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent."
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"Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble."
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"In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology."
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"In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age."
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"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."
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"What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside."
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"So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources."
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