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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone,
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no read more
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the
youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can
never be so in mind.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
[Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in
parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
