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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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.]
Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch read more
Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always read more
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy read more
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
