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“Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.”

Brain Wise Youth Battle Train Temper Governors Womanhood Being Wise Meek Motherly

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

Years Littles Youth Train Speed

Book:Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958

Source: Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958

“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

“I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I went to Europe for about two months, just traveling around in youth hostels and Eurail trains with my friends.”

Two School Youth Months My Friends Europe Train Marketing Pursued Two Months

Author:Kevin Nealon

“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.”

People World Problem Running School Past Achieve Youth Expectations High School Suicide Train High Expectations

Author:James Franco

“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.”

Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher