Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“No young man believes he shall ever die.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Bk. I, ch. 3.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
“Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 54.
“By riverside are cooing
A pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing
A maiden fair he loves.”
Xu Yuanchong (1921) Translator of Chinese poetry
The Book of Poetry, "A Fair Maiden"
Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)
“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
“Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?'”
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.'
p. 14
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)
“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
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