“Know'st thou not well, with thy superior wisdom, that
On a vain tongue punishment is inflicted?”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 328–329 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)
“Age is no more near than youth
To the sceptre and the crown.
Vain the wisdom, vain the truth;
Do not lay thy rapture down.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
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To the sceptre and the crown.
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Do not lay thy rapture…" by George William Russell?
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Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935Related quotes
“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”
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The Age for Love
Context: It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals. When a man has loved literature as I loved it at twenty, he cannot be satisfied at twenty-six to give up his early passion, even at the bidding of implacable necessity.
Bias of Priene (-600–-530 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the Seven Sages
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
George Peele (1556–1596) English translator and poet
Polyhymnia (1590), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How happy he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 99.
