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“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.”

Life Age Force Growth Tree Youth Flower Birth Roots Green Rose Dumb Rebirth Fever Blast Crooked Destroyers Fuse

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.”

Ifs Life Giving Has Beens Age Lasts Life Is Desire Left Wish Youth Blessing Surprise Enjoyment Midst More Time Life Is Short Fever Tedious Future Time

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.”

Age Doubt Youth Brave Aging Rainbow Fever Avarice Caprice Fretting Perspiration Hope Love Gout

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851

“Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.”

Reason Youth Fever Intoxication

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld