As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.
—Cicero.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme.
—Aaron Hill.
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YOUTH.
Happy the youth that finds the bride
Whose birth is to his own allied,
The sweetest joy of life:
But oh, the crowds of wretched souls
Fetter'd to minds of different moulds
And chain'd t' eternal strife!
—Dr. Isaac Watts.