Why, young orphan, all this wailing?
Why, young orphan, all this wailing?
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Oh youth, thou must thyself restrain!
Youth, alas, throughout life as closely to age is united.
If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Oh youth, I was a brook indeed.
Fain the youth would, in his first alarm,
Kindly youth, I never can be thine!
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories