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Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn,
Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

— Jean Ingelow

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Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thoughts which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said.

Poems (1863)

Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?

Poems (1863)

There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.

Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875)

If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.

John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886)

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872)

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”

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