If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us
 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Middlemarch
Topic youth hope
Date 1872
Language English
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“Hath she her faults? I would you had them too. They are the fruity must of soundest wine; Or say, they are regenerating fire Such as hath turned the dense black element Into a crystal pathway for the sun. If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.” source