Quotes 141 till 160 of 254.
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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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