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Youth Quotes - Page 35

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Ellen Glasgow (1902). “The Battle-Ground”, p.271, University of Alabama Press

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.

Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.51

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

Edward Young (1747). “A vindication of providence: or, A true estimate of human life, discourse i”, p.19

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.158, Library of America