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“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

Interest Secret Generations Mystery Youth Taste Enthusiasm Posterity Predecessors Secret Society

Book:The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

“In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.”

Men Firsts Long Might Youth He Man Becoming Disappointment Seeking Pursuit Enthusiasm Hopeless Quests Suggestions Be A Man Ardor Relinquishing

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.”

Earth White Quality Youth Essentials Roots Hot Strikes Enthusiasm Zeal Gracious

Book:Max (EasyRead Large Edition)

Source: Max (EasyRead Large Edition)

“It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.”

People Thinking Men Two Young Turns Youth Smart Doctrine Enthusiasm Curious Arrogance Autobiography Seventies Alas Elders Fervor

Book:One man's initiation: 1917: a novel

Source: One man's initiation: 1917: a novel

“Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.”

Thinking Believe Dream Desire Humanity Hours Greater Generations Youth Filled Deeds Enthusiasm Dawn Height Thinker Thirst New Generation Doers Intoxication

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.”

Years Ends Problem Careers Youth Ten Singers Enthusiasm Get Away

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.”

Way Culture Youth Enthusiasm Youth Culture Armani

Author:Giorgio Armani

“Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”

Reality Youth Connections Enthusiasm Repentance Application Dose

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged