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“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.”

Passion Energy Mistake Youth Stronger Excited Violent Intense Strongest Durability

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.”

Source: The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.”

Mistake Youth Fairs Allowance

Author:Juvenal

“it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.”

People Long Age Lasts Grows Mistake Sun Youth Creatures Sight Prejudice Fellows Rose Old Age Twilight Fog Old People Petty Long Day

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.”

Trying Sometimes Age Individual Mistake Middle Youth Individuality Middle Ages Eccentricity

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.”

Men Dream Young Mistake Youth Greatness Genius Ambition Ill Young Man Suggestions Misled

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.”

People May Has Beens Facts Age Belief Numbers Mistake Youth Surprise Getting Old Getting Older Uneasy Being Old

Author:Terri E Apter

“Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.”

Men Self Age Beautiful Choices Causes Mistake Youth Stress True Self Being Beautiful Age And Youth Bad Choices

Author:Miuccia Prada

“We would never throw up our hands and say to those white boys - well, too bad, if you had just stayed away from marijuana or not dealt dope to your friends when you were 18 you wouldn't be serving a life sentence in prison right now. You wouldn't be locked out of jobs, unable to even get work at McDonalds. No, instead we'd say, "What's wrong with us as a nation that we would condemn so many of our young men to a life of poverty, exclusion, and scorn simply because they made a few mistakes in their youth?".”

Ifs Men Wells Made Hands Jobs Young Nations White Mistake Boys Poverty Youth Right Now Prison Sentences Young Man Serving Marijuana Locked Scorn Dope Exclusion Mcdonalds

Author:Michelle Alexander

“They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.”

Way Wanted Sports Mistake Youth Program Clubs Seventies

Author:Casey Stengel

“Its not living the gospel thats hard. Its life thats hard...How often do we make the mistake of talking to our youth about how hard it is...Shouldn't we instead be focusing on the doctrine of joy...? p 106”

Hard Joy Mistake Talking Youth Doctrine

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.”

Said Two Evil Sides Mistake Fire Youth Victim Accidents Saved Burning Making Mistakes Spiders Firefly I Make Mistakes Minstrels Arsonists

Author:James Thurber

“We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.”

Age Pay Mistake Youth Devil Old Age Maturity

Book:The Midnight Palace

Source: The Midnight Palace