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“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.”

Ifs Years Made Age Found Views Wife Progress Youth Ten Misery Drinking Old Age Miserable Tea Beer Makers Laziness Fifteen Destroyers Fifteen Years Tea Drinking

Author:William Cobbett

“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

“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”

Men Looks Soul Eye Mother Found Father Grows Youth Lovers Mouths Bones Flesh Tales My Soul Fairy Old Man Categories Fairy Tale Folds Cracked Fragmented

Author:Jennifer Stone

“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

World Light Found Opinion Youth Poet Essence Filled Faults Tales Plato Depraved

Book:The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...

Source: The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...

“And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”

Mind Body Found Women Pay Youth Painter Score Smooth Portraits Elegance Stains Phoenix Surpassing Duchess

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.”

Wanted Found Youth

Author:Victor Borge

“We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests.”

“A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.”

Want Mind Reality Age Desire Suffering Found Careers Youth Expression Thirds Felicity Correspondence

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.”

Ifs Hate Found Secret Youth Eternal Distance Work Out Gym Chips Ribs Obese Eternal Youth

Author:Jason Isaacs

“The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal”

Made Spirit Found Energy Forever Youth Ideals Yearning Reverie

Book:The complete works of W.E. Channing

Source: The complete works of W.E. Channing

“One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.”

Found Literature Differences Youth Accustomed

Author:James Joyce

“At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!”

Found Youth Glory Fortunate Tombs Achilles

Author:Alexander the Great

“I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.”

Ifs Inspiration Found Youth Majority Clubs Weather California Hanging Out San Diego Looking For Inspiration

Author:Jason Mraz

“I had been a Girl Scout from the time I was 8 to the time I was 18 years old. I had belonged to my church organization and youth groups. But, you never really found a way that you could make a change.”

Way Years Girl Found Church Groups Youth Organization Making Changes Girl Scout

Author:Dolores Huerta

“Plenty of drug dealing does happen in the 'hood, but it happens everywhere else in America as well. In fact, some studies suggest that where significant differences in the data can be found, white youth are more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than black youth.”

Wells Doe Facts Happens America Found Black Differences White Study Youth Drug Significant Plenty Data Illegal Hood Illegal Drugs Black Youth

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.”

Firsts I Can Found Half Youth Solitude First Time Misery Manhood Dreary Found You

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.”

People Care Young Found Youth Students College Materials Drama Excuse Boredom Brutal Avoided College Students

Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

“We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.”

Men Earth Found Heaven Pleasure Cities Failing Youth Duty Proud Eternal Glory Blessed Lust Paradise Pens Floating Drank Venice Heaven And Earth Frail Mirth Love And Lust

Author:Veronica Franco

“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”

Years Age Found Answers Cry Youth Tears Tired

Author:Dylan Thomas

“I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.”

Men Soul Mother Found Father Heaven White Known Youth Mountain Stones Fishes Woods Mortals Touched Cycles Old Man Nevertheless Orphan Memories Dreams Reflections

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself”

Thinking Made Found Too Much Youth Morbid

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings