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A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton
Fire, Age, Youth
Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.57

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Charles Caleb Colton
Pain, Age, Youth
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Charles Caleb Colton
Funny, Age, Fifty

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

Charles Caleb Colton
Determination, Past, Age
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.101

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton
Winter, Age, Lapland
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Caleb Colton
Age, Excess, Waste
Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.51

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton
Age, Church, Farce
Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.343

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton
Power, Two, Age
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

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