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Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
- Courage
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Woman of No Importance (1893)
- America
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Comedy
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Age
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it has been of yore;⁠—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807)In context
- Change
- Nature
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
- Advice
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
- Love