Best youth & down-and Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.”

Lasts Spirit Air Blood Youth Cold Down And Dry Hopeful Melancholy Reign Cheerful Damp

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.”

Ifs Men Mind May Persons Sometimes Feelings Young Fall Known Youth Succeed Down And Casts Young Man Injury Injured

Book:The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.”

Grows Growing Up Tree Youth Paper Down And Heavy Spread Seeds Flexible Notebook Saplings

Author:Jill McCorkle

“The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.”

Life Book Past Dies Fate Progress Youth Despair Crosses Down And Peril

Author:William Shakespeare

“But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus”

Ends Age Left Strong Hours Youth Beats Down And Immortal Ashes Indignant

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.”

Said Modern Youth Down And Civilized Great Music Clockwork Great Poetry Modern Youth

Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play

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