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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

“Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.”

Pleasure Laughing Youth Fairs Blow Realms Rising Vessel Gallant Helm Gilded Azure Zephyr

Author:Thomas Gray

“A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.”

Friendship Childhood Stage Youth Genius Accidents Rising Manhood Rest Of Life Happy Accidents

Book:Tablets

Source: Tablets

“You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.”

Young Turns Fall Youth Heat Rising Cake

Book:Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life

“It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.”

Looks Generations Youth Bases Constitution Slave Permanent Rising Reformation Virginia Emancipation Settlement Inexperience

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.”

Self Character Hands Government Father Energy Principles Generations Youth Son Protect Passing Passings Preserves Purity Rising Self-government Inexperience

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“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