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“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.”

Youth Development Periods Glory Resources

Book:Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.”

Age Youth Genius Glory Curse Everlasting Mixtures

Book:the conqueror

Source: the conqueror

“Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.”

Youth Glory Dear Brilliant Bitter Companion Acquaintance Undone Inhuman

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition

“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.”

Self Dream Might Values Passion Imagination Youth Glory Ideals Perfection Pursuit Urges Adolescence Boundless Absorption Self Absorption Personalized Self Perfection

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.”

Persons Pain Pleasure Feet Youth Glory Claims Dare Dues Vanity Associates

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”

Two Stories Names Youth Sweet Glory Twenties Plenty Ivy Laurels Myrtle

Author:Lord Byron

“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

“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”

People Soul Age Literature Interest Talent Youth Judgment Glory Invention Birthday Inventor Spurs Great Souls Inventions And Inventors Great Inventors

Author:Jonathan Swift

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

Way Youth Glory Angel Fairs Court Errors Mortals Instant Gates Ecstasy

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”

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

“Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.”

“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

“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.”

Persons Lost Rooms Gone Youth Capable Glory Blanket

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel