Quotes 11781 till 11800 of 12035.
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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 the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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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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[The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
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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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A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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