Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“If youth knew; if age could.”
Se jeunesse savoit; si viellesse pouvoit.
Épigramme 4, Les Prémices, book 4
“[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”
The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8
(la) Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
Context: The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
“Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age…”
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“A worm is in the bud of youth,
And at the root of age.”
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
