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“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”

Men Feels Years Character Left Generations Youth College Delight Debt Association Payment Fraternity Younger Generation Formative Years

Author:Newton D. Baker

“The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.”

Book Youth Equal Affection Delight Recalls Deserving Ever After Charmed

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Blood Food Youth Emotional Painting Response Passionate Delight Theology No Response

Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.”

Wells Children Youth Source Delight Description Fountain Weariness Volcanoes Fountain Of Youth

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.”

Ifs Men Life Giving Remember Asks Youth Longing Endure Delight Cease Vain Long Life

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.”

“Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.”

Soul Age Grace Youth Comfort Adversity Prosperity Delight Old Age Refuge Ornaments Provocation

Author:Saint Augustine

“Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.”

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

Age Memories Youth Adversity Prosperity Delight Old Age Temper

Author:Lactantius

“It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.”

Should Years Doe Hard Easy Youth Labor Delight Comparison Year One

Book:The American Way of Life

Source: The American Way of Life

“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”

Looks Long Book Done Enough Lasts Lost Process Sleep Pleasure Talking Sun Gone Sky Youth Equal Window Rose Delight Dinner London Shoulders Triumph Shock Chairs Pushing Shelves

Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition