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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show;
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the read more
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
You're never too old to become younger
You're never too old to become younger
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
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.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up read more
People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.
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.
