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“There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!”

May Art Success Desire Youth And Love Bliss Crowns Wiser Truth And Love

Book:The Picture of St. John

Source: The Picture of St. John

“A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.”

Should Wisdom Seems Young Wise Youth Ought Fellows Maturity Wiser Being Wise

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.”

“When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.”

Looks Has Beens Art Made Father Doubt Generations Youth Periods Equal Discovery No Doubt Witch Contemplating Immense Wiser Our Father Inexperience Advances In Science

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.”

Thinking Men Made Reason Young Forget Youth Insight Intuition Variety Old Man Daring Wiser Accustomed Accumulation Agility Quickness

Book:Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky