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“Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.”

Mind Kind Reason Hands Winning Youth Gains Pity Fancy Woe Reins Contemplative

Book:The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.”

Soul Feelings Desire Wish Sin Simple Morning Journey Youth Limits Ocean Infinite Wings Luxury Features Immortality Fancy Hollow

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by. For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.”

Men Littles Dream Kindness Youth Great Things Things To Do Fancy Each Day Spite Blindness Royal Seeming True Worth

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.”

Imagination Youth Fancy Adolescence

Book:The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

Source: The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

“Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.”

Young Found Women Youth Ruins Fancy Forty Midst Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Arsene Houssaye

“If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.”

Ifs Knows May Youth Wounds Invisible Fancy Cheeks Arrows

Book:Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

“The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.”

Youth Aging Vices Fancy Exceed

Author:Mason Cooley

“Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.”

Youth Asking Regard Bread Fancy Cake Daily Bread

Book:First Love, and Other Stories

Source: First Love, and Other Stories