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“The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”

People Ifs Looks Ideas Real Hard Life Is Joy Suffering Deals Objects Youth Tears Bears Majority Entertainment Riches Look Up Being Real Definite Incline Personal Happiness

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth—artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.”

Years Looks Artist Values Objects Youth Years Ago Possession Resonance

Author:Nicholas Haslam

“Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.”

Knows World Want Firsts Whole Values Politics Nations Interest Decision Objects Youth Organization Accomplish Organize

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.”

Humans Dream Body Natural Secret Taken Objects Youth Sensual Human Body Delighted

Author:Haniel Long

“When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.”

Different America Spirit Language Liberty Objects Youth Primaries American Revolution American Spirit

Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

“I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.”

May Important Objects Youth Benefits Expected

Book:Recollections and Letters

Source: Recollections and Letters

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.”

“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”

Inspirational Should Important Country Government Motivational Education Liberty Objects Youth Duty Species Communicate Primaries Patriotic Republic Guardian

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private