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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

James Russell Lowell
Youth, Young, Gifts Of Life
James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.277

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell
Time, Literature, Youth
James Russell Lowell (1897). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...”

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

James Russell Lowell
Love, Promise, Youth
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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