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“How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!”

Age Youth Ease Labour Retirement Shade Retiring Crowns Retired Retirement Wishes Retirement Age Inspirational Retirement

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“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.”

“So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.”

May Age Mother Youth Weak Fruit Old Age Ease Mature Grey Lap Ripe Withered Ripe Fruit

Author:John Milton

“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.”

Humans Looks Stills Eye Pain Causes Easy My Own Boys Youth Shoes Ease Divided Troublesome Through The Eyes

Book:What is the What

Source: What is the What

“Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.”

Force Youth Periods Sacred Ease Maturity Flags Relaxation Physical Force

Book:Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”

“Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...”

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

World Mind States Time Imagination Quality This World Youth Adventure Demand Ease Appetite State Of Mind Temper Timidity Youth Life

Book:Great Speeches Collection 2 - AUDIO EDITION

Source: Great Speeches Collection 2 - AUDIO EDITION

“What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.”

Knows World Stills Real Romance Order Quality Youth Wounds Compromise Mortals Ease Openness Real World

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past”

Men Long Ends Pain Lasts Past Attention Sun Dying Youth Taught Sweet Taste Harmony Tongue Breathe Setting Settings Vain Ease Sweetest Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”