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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.


James Russell Lowell

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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
ROBERT LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too m...
JOHN MAJOR The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
HENRY BECQUE The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors
HENRY BECQUE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. It's too soon to put a dollar amount (DEP penalty) on it, if there is one.
ELAINE MAKATURA I wasn't too pleased about it. Derek got hit with a split. We knew it, they knew it. It just happene...
TERRY FRANCONA Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ce...
SIMONE WEIL Respect your elders. Be kind to your youth.
Respect your youth. Be kind to your elders.
MARK SHERMAN SMEESTER One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.
STEVE MARABOLI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content ...
JESSICA KHOURY I believe my client is laboring under a mental health defect, and that it may be the same one that l...
KARL ROMINGER Pierre's too dangerous. He'll slap down a bunt with the bases loaded. I wanted Lowell.
DOUG DAVIS Valley's coach told me they beat Russell County by only a few points last week, and Russell County b...
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ANTHONY SCHEMBRI If we get back to a normal winter soon, we'll be OK. I'm not too concerned yet.
BOB MOORE Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
MITCH ALBOM We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
GEORGE HERBERT The only thing that remains for this to be a complete revolution is for the security forces to defec...
KRISHNA KHANAL The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
LILLIAN SMITH If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way
SOURCE UNKNOWN If there is a war, it will be entirely his own fault. Of course I would like a peaceful solution too...
JOSE MARIA AZNAR Life without you is just like a pair of compass with defect where only one movable arm is attached t...
MAGGIEGUE Few writers have had less journalistic talent than James, and this is his defect, for the supreme ma...
W. H. AUDEN You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
DOUG HORTON Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
LAO TZU Only a few eccentric, wealthy people will experience space tourism prior to 2020. It (2020) may be a...
EILEEN KENNEDY One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This tournament will not only be a good one but it also represents a good person. James Gamble is li...
ANDRE BOUTTE I think it will be good for Alabama, Russell shareholders and Russell employees.
LONNIE STRICKLAND I think the jobs we had with Russell were always taken for granted. The entire community thought it ...
DON MCCLELLAN It would be one thing if it were only a matter of the youth teams playing until 9 p.m., but there ar...
DOUG BOULTER By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a de...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what’s done for Christ will last.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
MUHAMMAD ALI We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
CHARLES STUDD Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
EDWARD W. HOWE If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
CASSANDRA CLARE Taylor was named after James Taylor and claims that she knows all the James Taylor songs, and I'...
CHARLIE PUTH Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors ...
FRANZ KAFKA It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical t...
SAUL KRIPKE It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
VINCENT VAN GOGH You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM We still think it is too soon to call Avon a successful turnaround in progress.
JUSTIN HOTT Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth...
CHINA MIéVILLE Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.
NIA VARDALOS Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would ...
JODI PICOULT It certainly too soon to be sure, but I think it's a very strong indication that hiring is getting o...
BILL CHENEY The only divine defect of the Word of God is in knowledge.
SORIN CERIN Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
HENRY GEORGE Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at tim...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG I think pitching will be one of our biggest problems. We'll be very young and we need someone to ste...
BOBBY DAVIS It may be too soon to say we hit bottom, but it's at least some indication that there isn't a lot lo...
JOHN HEYWOOD One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We went through a nice stretch of big guys. But soon, everyone is going to realize that there's ...
DAVID ROBINSON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN If we had given up too soon, we would have miss the sunniest of today.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Little Feat had done risky moves from the get go. You're going to lose people and get people. If the...
BILLY PAYNE Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER One can only hope that the position that is being articulated by the youth league is not that of the...
BERNARD BALIKANI When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
SANDRA AMARTEY If our eyes were fully attuned like a camera or better the wanders that we would actually see would ...
GARY F EVANS... We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the s...
ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL Life is a series of calculated risks, James. I happen to think that this one is worth it.
LISH MCBRIDE What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness,
and is too dearly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL If it had been a year it would have been too soon. But, it's been a little while.
HERMAN MOORE Quality of life is very important, but if we don't get rid of this defect, it will eventually take h...
DR. ROGER HUDGINS It is just too soon to say.
JOE GRACE It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
MITCH ALBOM As soon as we have power, that will be the only thing that's keeping us from opening. There'll be co...
JASON MOHNEY What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTEN It is too soon to say what we are going to do ... The debates will be held when people are paying at...
ARI FLEISCHER Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
UNKNOWN If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However...
DADA BHAGWAN If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
LUDWIG BORNE James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Patience revels in misfortunes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL