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“Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.”

Brain Wise Youth Battle Train Temper Governors Womanhood Being Wise Meek Motherly

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.”

Men Young Easy Youth Flower Battle Young Man Finest

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.”

Men Voice Youth Battle Red Burden Ruins Harvest Manhood Outrage October Flocks Lament Furnaces Martyred

Author:Siegfried Sassoon

“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”

Years Fighting Asks Kindness Greater Youth Battle Privilege Adolescence Mistaken Shields

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.”

Age Middle Youth Battle Corruption Middle Ages

Author:John Knox

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”

“The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.”

Ideas Bigs Process Youth Battle Aging Delusion Mistaken Instability Big Ideas Minimizing Aging Process

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”

Has Beens Joy Spirit Principles Youth Source Sorrow Battle Flesh Anguish Incessant Joys And Sorrows

Book:The last temptation of Christ

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?”

Men Firsts Looks Said Done Enough Lasts Father Careers Youth Battle Army Soldier Saint Shoulders Preserves Engagement Fifteen Drs Rifles Galen

Book:Princess of the Midnight Ball

Source: Princess of the Midnight Ball

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”

Men Should Doe War Loses Youth Battle Every Man

Book:A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four