Quotes 10221 till 10240 of 10439.
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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.Source: Alzira (1736) Act IV, Scene 1. -
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
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Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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[The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
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… I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'.
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'T is not enough to help the feeble up; but to support him after.
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'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
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