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“A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.”

Giving Heart May Children Stills Age Mother Love Is Youth Devotion Golden Gentle Links Cheeks Recalls Brows Mother's Love

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.”

“If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.”

Ifs Knows May Youth Wounds Invisible Fancy Cheeks Arrows

Book:Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

“'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”

Long Youth Sorrow Summer Rose Cheeks July

Author:George Edward Moore

“A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.”

Men Whole Eye Young Black Religious White Youth He Man Devil Scary Loud Young Man Possessed Cheeks Pupils Departed Lamentation

Author:Saint Augustine

“Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.”

Heart Past Gone Youth Fades Cheeks Smooth Blushing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.”

Looks Heart Soul Turns Forget Known Youth Tears Rose Dear Thee Never Forget Cheeks Sunflower

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.”

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.”

World Made Dream Might Passion Memories Sleep Sin White Brain Youth Red Shame Filled Rose Mere Terror Gray Cheeks Stains Boyhood

Author:Oscar Wilde

“But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.”

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