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 | Butterick Publishing Company - Beauty, Personal - 1892 - 562 pages
...incredulous. Longfellow says that "Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." And so, when the twilight of youth comes, they who will may look out into the night of earthly futurity... | |
 | Augustine Jones - Abolitionists - 1892 - 52 pages
...all, says more sweetly and truly, "Age is opportunity, no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars invisible by day."J This poet has beautifully delineated in these * Letter of John Griscom, Vol. XIV., p. 286. •f... | |
 | American poetry - 1893 - 472 pages
...it, old age is still old age. ****** Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. — Moriluri Salutamus, IMMORTALITY. And in the wreck of noble lives, Something immortal still survives.... | |
 | Henry Austin Adams - Sermons, American - 1893 - 210 pages
...vineyard we are asked to work in now. Life cannot be, of course, all that it promised once, but "... as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." TACT. TACT. " . . . Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." — S. MATTHEW x. 16.... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Conduct of life - 1894 - 194 pages
...garnering, then in the aftermath. " Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day." There is a warning, as well as an encouragement, in this thought of the aftermath of influence; for... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1894 - 650 pages
...best preparation for old age is to pack the passing years with good deeds done for Christ ; then — " As the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. " The birthplace of Polycarp is not known. Indeed, there is no record whatever of his parentage or... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Willard, Minerva Brace Norton - 1894 - 368 pages
...Human, of Massachusetts, " Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress. But as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." From Roswell Smith, editor of the Century magazine, "This life, even under the most adverse circumstances,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Old age - 1895 - 232 pages
...Longfellow's Morituri Salutamus : — For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Haec babul . . . dicerem. Cf. the closing paragraph of the De Am., in which the same form of expression... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - Education - 1896 - 1114 pages
...oldest one some fruit may bear: For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day." 4. I am here to insist that for such people, the middle-aged, the old people of the community, the... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Spanish Student. Act III. 8c. 3. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another Apostolic blows and knocks. o. BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 189. What makes all d t. LONGFELLOW — Moritiiri Salntamns. L. 281. How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the... | |
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