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“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

“The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.”

Hands Pleasure Virtue Youth Band Spring Flow Rose Spread Virtuous Crowns Perfume Carpet Pipe Harmonious Hand In Hand Vigor Mansions Velvet Gale Flora Shrubs Zephyr

Book:The Ghost

Source: The Ghost

“Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.”

Persons Age Sex Pleasure Youth Authority Old Age Carrie Virtuous

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.”

Long Youth Summer Mood Virtuous Retrospect Summer Days Dissipation

Book:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”

Men Want Kind Has Beens Causes Known Virtue Youth Habit Goodness Be Kind Misfortunes Virtuous Charitable Unkindness

Book:Silent on the Moor

Source: Silent on the Moor