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“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”

“Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.”

Should Age Youth Demand Seasons Old Age Application Devoted Manhood Earnest Revision Receptivity

Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought

“The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.”

Firsts My Own Youth Summer Expectations First Time Seasons London Theatre Brilliant No Fear Oblivious Youth Theatre

Author:Gina McKee

“When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn?”

Stills Strong Youth Return Future Seasons Dues Flames Yield Spheres Harvest Lamps Kindles

Book:An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century

Source: An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century

“Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.”

Men Mean Stills Reality Cities Air Youth Seasons Infinite Shame Sacred Barriers Virtuous Clay Castles In The Air

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books

“Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.”

“Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.”

Romance Night Morning Youth Summer Spring Seasons Winter Maturity Attributes Noon Repose Freshness

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Youth is a season that has no repose.”

Youth Seasons Repose

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.”

Love Made Joy Love Is Youth Duty Seasons

Author:John Gay

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Age Lasts Emotion Youth Seasons Crisis Finals Cease Plenty Shock Hopeful Resolve Elders Parting Earthquakes Peru

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)