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... yet careless breast , Itself a star not borrowing light , But in its own glad essence bright . Moore . In girls we love what they are ; in lads what they promise . Goethe . Youth is perpetual intoxication ; ' tis the fever of.
... yet careless breast , Itself a star not borrowing light , But in its own glad essence bright . Moore . In girls we love what they are ; in lads what they promise . Goethe . Youth is perpetual intoxication ; ' tis the fever of.
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... Goethe . It is less vain to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age . Solon . The fate of the child is always the work of his mother . Napoleon . The passions are not stronger in youth , but our control Aver them is weaker . They are ...
... Goethe . It is less vain to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age . Solon . The fate of the child is always the work of his mother . Napoleon . The passions are not stronger in youth , but our control Aver them is weaker . They are ...
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... does not easily cast off a certain complacent self - conceit , which prin- cipally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before . Goethe , Be affable and courteous in youth , that You may YOUTH . 15.
... does not easily cast off a certain complacent self - conceit , which prin- cipally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before . Goethe , Be affable and courteous in youth , that You may YOUTH . 15.
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... , Save in the office and affairs of love ; Goethe . Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself , and trust no agent . Shakspeare . When thou art near , The sweetest joys still sweeter LOVE . 45.
... , Save in the office and affairs of love ; Goethe . Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself , and trust no agent . Shakspeare . When thou art near , The sweetest joys still sweeter LOVE . 45.
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... Goethe . Ovid . Time , which deadens hatred , secretly strengthens love . Love's sweet tokens now command : Cold seem all thy burning kisses , Faint the pressure of thy hand . Goethe . I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body ...
... Goethe . Ovid . Time , which deadens hatred , secretly strengthens love . Love's sweet tokens now command : Cold seem all thy burning kisses , Faint the pressure of thy hand . Goethe . I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Montesquieu Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Polly Esther Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth