A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unrolled.
We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men
are so, its funeral bell has already rung.
-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
-- US clergyman, writer
We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men
are so, its funeral bell has already rung.
-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
-- US clergyman, writer
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- Young men, hear an old man to whom
old men hearkened when he was young.
Augustus... - In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up,
that makes us rich. -- Henry Ward... - And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men come forward and play before us."
Joab answered "Yes,
let them." So they came up one by one, and took... - I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me
conservative when old.
Robert Frost (1875... - Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened
when he was young."
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Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Caesar... - It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool,
except a young fool. But the young fool has got to... - Now comes the mystery." ~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist,
d. March 8,... - Now comes the mystery.
-- Last words of Henry Ward Beecher,
8 March 1887... - Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney...
