"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires."
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
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"Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth."
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"A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders."
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"The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth."
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"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."
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"Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world."
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"I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over."
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"Reckless youth makes rueful age."
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"Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death."
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"The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it."
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"The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth."
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"To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that."
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"Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation."
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"In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them."
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"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
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"How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives."
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"A youth is to be regarded with respect."
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"All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by."
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"While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old."
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