Matthew Arnold Quotes About Youth
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
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The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.
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For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.
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