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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. (Alexander Lloyd)
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. (Alexander Lloyd)
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present. (Alexander Lloyd)
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. (Alexander Lloyd)
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. (Alexander Lloyd)
Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent. (Alexander Lloyd)
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. (Alexander Lloyd)
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has. (Alexander Lloyd)
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity. (Alexander Lloyd)
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. (Alexander Lloyd)
The passions of the young are vices in the old. (Alexander Lloyd)
Ask the young. They know everything. (Alexander Lloyd)
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. (Alexander Lloyd)
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Alexander Lloyd)
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. (Alexander Lloyd)
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