“A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.”
Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294; reference taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 261
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