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“Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.”

Vision Youth Privilege Charming Constructs Castles In The Air

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.”

Thinking Moments Belief Special Youth Regret Privilege Firm Present Moment Looking Forward Possessing Firm Beliefs

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!”

Ifs Men Years May Soul Age Impossible Youth Spring Privilege Heavy Our Time Sunshine Prime Worn Pastor Breeze Alas Springtime Mansions Moss Boyhood

Book:Tales and sketches

Source: Tales and sketches

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”

Years Fighting Asks Kindness Greater Youth Battle Privilege Adolescence Mistaken Shields

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

Humans Dies Fall Human Beings Imagine Youth Misery Privilege Painful Enjoyment Perpetual Solitary Decay Sincerely Deliverance Insufferable

Author:James Sharp

“In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.”

People Believe School Youth Ought Prison Ill Privilege Educational Superiors Educated Aliens Gaps Arrogant Here I Am Public Education Peaking

Author:Adrienne Rich

“It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.”

Knows Mind Might Love You Youth Privilege Leap Changing Your Mind

Author:Charles Kuralt

“Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.”

Should Ends Age Enjoy Youth Failure Advantage Capacity Privilege Birthday Accumulation

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.”

Knows Moments Beautiful Young Youth Privilege Pauses Introspection Continuity

Book:The Secret Sharer and Other Stories

Source: The Secret Sharer and Other Stories

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Said Whole Hands America Growing Wonderful Stage Youth Privilege Obsession Buying Old People God Knows Glorify North America Growing Older

Author:Elisabeth Elliot