How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
– John Milton
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- Nature hath no goal, though she hath law. – John Donne
- What hath night to do with sleep? – John Milton
- So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. – John Fante
- My thoughts are wing’d with hopes,My hopes with love.Thoughts, hopes and love return to me no more,Until Cynthia shine as she hath done before. – Eve Edwards
- Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. – William Shakespeare
- The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord. – Zhuangzi
- In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. – TS Eliot
- The dream came again-”three times in three nights and always at the first of the year. – Jettie Necole
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- There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
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- The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear’s youth. – Javier Enrquez Serralde
- Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt
- We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt
- Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up – Flora Rheta Schreiber
- Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization. – Jeff Jarvis
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- Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year. – John R Dallas Jr
- But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love. – Anonymous
- THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili) – Idries Shah
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- Summers end to soon just as childhood ends before we apprehend the effervescent of our youth. – Kilroy J Oldster
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- Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century. – Laurie R King
- Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. – William MacDonald
- There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. – Margot Lee Shetterly
- Psychotherapy isn’t a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process. – Patricia Love
- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
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- I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal. – JD Salinger
- In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America—and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. – Robert A Heinlein
- Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation – Robert Motherwell