William Hazlitt Quotes About Youth
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.
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There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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