"Now stand you on the top of..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Now stand you on the top of happy hours,And many maiden gardens yet unset,With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit:So should the lines of life that life repairWhich this, Time's pencil, or my pupil penNeither in inward worth nor outward fairCan make you live your self in eyes of men.
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More on Youth
“Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.”
“And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,Or who have found a painter to make them so for payAnd smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”
More on Beauty
“A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”
“That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.”
“The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.”