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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah, woful when!

A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life.

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so.

An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

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. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.