"Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only."
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"You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes"
"It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it."
"Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen."
"Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age."
"The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten."
"We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them."
"The youthful freshness of a blameless heart."
"I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day."
"And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent."
"Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee."
"From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him."
"We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."
"A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven."
"When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can."
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can."
"The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men."
"It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth."
"Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth."