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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Youth

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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Henry David Thoreau
Age, Youth, Lost
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Henry David Thoreau
May, Youth, Plant

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Innocence, Youth
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Henry David Thoreau
Age, Generations, Youth
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Henry David Thoreau
Towns, Youth, Nature Beauty
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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