“The hope lives on age after age,
Earth with its beauty might be won
For labor as a heritage,
For this has Ireland lost a son.”
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
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Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Essay on American Scenery in American Monthly Magazine (January 1836)
Context: It has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven. It was upon Mount Horeb that Elijah experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice. That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.”
Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo
Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter V (tr. K. Volk)
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 315
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray