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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Nature
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Happiness
Your tears come easy, when you’re young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you’re old, and leaving it.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Moonstone (1868), First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848), Chapter XIXIn context
- Age
- Emotion
Oh, my childhood, days of my innocence! In this nursery I used to sleep; I used to look out from here into the orchard. Happiness used to wake with me every morning, and then it was just as it is now; nothing has changed.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act One, spoken by LubovIn context
- Happiness
My dear, my gentle, beautiful orchard! My life, my youth, my happiness, good-bye! Good-bye!
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Four, spoken by LubovIn context
- Happiness
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 12:1 (KJV)In context
- Age
- God
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)In context
- Maturity