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“My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.”

Needs Stills Opportunity Failing Strength Youth Cunning

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.”

Soul Failing Youth Hero Admire Admiration Projection Intoxicated

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.”

Fate Failing Youth Failure Reserves Manhood No Failure Lexicon

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Ifs Way Suffering Loss Virtue Failing Youth Findings Deny Criminals Vehement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

“Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”

Book:Annotated The Secret Adversary with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated The Secret Adversary with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.”