Famous aphorisms:

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

The darkest hour is that before the dawn. —— Fuller Fuller

The longest day has an end.

The saddest day also has an end. —— Howell

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. —— J. Ruskin

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. —— Heywood

One swallow does not make a summer.

One swallow does not make a summer. —— Taverner

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink.

A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make it drink. Make it drink water. —— Heywood Heywood

One cannot eat one’s cake and have it.

One cannot eat one’s cake and leave it in his hand. ——Davies

Time is money.

Time is money. ——Benjamin Franklin Franklin

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time waits for no man. —— Scott Scott

All for one, one for all.

Everyone for one, one for everyone. ——[French] Dumas pére Alexandre Dumas

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.

Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. —— Socrates Socrates

Easy come, easy go.

What is easy to gain is also easy to lose. —— Hazlitt Hirst

Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher) History makes men wise ; Poetry makes people smart; mathematics makes people thoughtful; natural philosophy makes people profound; ethics makes people solemn; logic and rhetoric make people good at discerning.

(British philosopher Bacon. F.)

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

Life Bitterness is short, and if you waste your time, your short life will be too long. (British playwright Shakespeare. W.)

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin Roosevelt, American president) We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Youth creates a better future, but we can create our young generation for the future. (US President Roosevelt. F.)

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. ——Herbert Herbert

We soon believe what we desire.

What we desire, we soon believe it to be true. —— Chaucer

As many languages ??as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Emerson, Culture, The Conduct of Life

Do your best to master various languages, make various friends, and master various skills and industries. Only by working hard can you become a complete person. .

Emerson: "On Culture"

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he Is good at will not be sure what he is good for．

Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent

In our world of experience, a young man who does not know what he is good at will not know exactly what his worth is.

Edgar Friedenberg: "The Vanishing Teenager"

Classic Essay:

Youth

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite for what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long as you are young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

Youth

Samuel Earle

Man

Life is in a hurry, and youth is not a fleeting period. Youth should be an eternal state of mind. A rosy face, rosy lips, and flexible legs and feet are not all of youth. True youth is a strong will, a high taste of imagination, full of emotions, and the clear and ever-new spring of life.

Youth means the victory of bravery over cowardice, youth means the victory of enterprising spirit over ease. Will the cycle of years necessarily lead to aging? You know, senility is because you have given up on the pursuit of truth.

The passage of ruthless years has left deep wrinkles, and the loss of enthusiasm will leave its mark deep down. Anxiety, fear, and low self-esteem will eventually lead to depression and loss of will.

No matter whether you are 60 or 16, everyone should maintain an unyielding will in their heart to explore new things and pursue the joy of life. We all have a radio station in our hearts, and as long as we continue to receive beauty, hope, courage, and strength from humans and God, we will remain young forever. If you put away the antenna and let your soul be covered with the frost of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, you will be old even if you are 20 years old; if you are already 80 years old and dying, if you put up the antenna Listen to the optimistic and enterprising airwaves and you'll remain youthful.