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“One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.”

Has Beens Age Common One Thing Youth Discontent

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.”

States Life Is Culture Common Modern Youth Offers Adults Ethical Passages Togetherness Rite Sanctify Youth Culture Rite Of Passage Common Culture Modern Youth

Book:Modern Culture

Source: Modern Culture

“Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.”

Young Common Youth Variety Martyrdom Fondness

Author:Barbara Mertz

“It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.”

Age Interest Common Youth Vices Old Age

Book:The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus

Source: The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus

“We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.”

World Should Facts Common Accepting Youth Communication Standards Ideals Should Have Relation Transport

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

Ifs Men World Two Age Past Justice Loss Common Secret Knowing Youth Claims Bones Sly Age And Youth

Book:Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

Source: Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”

Men Action Sin Common Wise Mankind Youth Fool Ought Ashamed Temper Irrational Repent

Book:Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe

“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

Giving Trying Age Lost Realizing Common Wonderful Youth Listening Ideals Gold Aim Ignorant Hopeless Sensations Vulgar Tedious Wonderful Life

Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray