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Thy yesterday is past, Thy to-day, thy future, Thy to-morrow, is a secret.
--_From The Talmud._
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Speak gently to the young, for they Will have enough to bear-- Pa.s.s through this life as best they may, 'Tis full of anxious care.
--_Geo. W. Hangford._
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YOUTH.
How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of beginnings, story without end, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
All possibilities are in its hands: No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands: In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!" it, to the mountain, saith.
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An easy youth, generally means a hard old age.
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YOUTH AND AGE.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.
--_Cicero._
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in the wild extreme.
--_Aaron Hill._
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YOUTH.
Happy the youth that finds the bride Whose birth is to his own allied, The sweetest joy of life: But oh, the crowds of wretched souls Fetter'd to minds of different moulds And chain'd t' eternal strife!
--_Dr. Isaac Watts._
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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
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What is youth?--a dancing billow, Winds behind, and rocks before!
--_Wordsworth._
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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well, and working easy: you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
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Heavy work in youth is sweet repose in old age.
--_From the Italian._
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_Excessive Zeal._--An Indian, having heard from a white man some strictures on zeal, replied--"I don't know about having too much zeal; but I think it is better the pot should _boil over than_ not boil at all."
--_Macleod._
