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“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer

“I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.”

Men Children Morning Youth He Man Every Morning Virgins Contagious Gladness Freshness Happy Children

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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

“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.”

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Years Realizing Pleasure Morning Five Sadness Youth Wake Up Speed Passing Passings Five Years

Author:Derek Tangye

“We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.”

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Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.”

Should Morning Doors Youth Christmas Batteries Enterprising Christmas Morning Peddling

Book:Penny Candy

Source: Penny Candy

“One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!”

Want Trying Littles Seems Running Night Time Asks Morning Youth Silent Refuse Appearance Fixed More Time Toes Stopping Noon Rushing Never Stopping

Book:Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel

Source: Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”

Mind Whole Girl Morning Youth Shops Sparkle Freshness Dairy Conjuring Buttercup

Author:Muriel Spark

“The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.”

Ifs Made Feelings Funny Next Names Morning Youth Taste Humorous Decent Halls Secretary Pauses Good Sense Good Taste Swamps Sloppy Reluctance

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.”

“Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.”

Romance Night Morning Youth Summer Spring Seasons Winter Maturity Attributes Noon Repose Freshness

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.”

Looks Seems Used Morning Car Youth Paper Train Storm Snow Observation Pale Passengers Scrap Tissues Repetitive Fly Away Snow Storms Tissue Paper

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.”

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Author:Antonio Banderas

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”

Age Passion Morning Middle Youth Periods Shadow Aging Disappear Evening Young Age Middle Ages Good Morning Infirmity Age Of 40 40th Birthday

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.”

Ifs World Different Seems School Culture Universe Class Morning Player Middle Youth Despite Get Up Middle Class Parallels Caps Cds Different Cultures Nike Sony Parallel Universe Levi's Cd Players

Book:No Logo

Source: No Logo