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“Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.”

Dream Age Youth Greatness Aging Old Age Follow Your Dreams

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

Age Night Wealth Silence Poverty Youth Greatness Expression Old Age Day And Night

Book:Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

“Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.”

Men Dream Young Mistake Youth Greatness Genius Ambition Ill Young Man Suggestions Misled

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Whose best and most fruitful gift was the power of admiration, which made it possible for me to learn. Now, as in my youth, I am looking up to the truly great creations of the past, which I see high above my own and which alone deserve the name of greatness.”

Made Past Names My Own Creation Youth Greatness Respect Deserve Made It Admiration

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!”

People Stills Ends Nations Youth Greatness Thousand Weak Glorious Prime Expansion Manhood Shrinks Great Nations Coming To An End

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.”

Want Taken Youth Greatness Aging Granted Taken For Granted Taking Things For Granted Took For Granted Things We Take For Granted

Book:The House In Paris

Source: The House In Paris