Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.
Man__ own youth is the world__ youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth__ granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. So it was with Holgrave. He could talk sagely about the world__ old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and therefore looked upon the world__hat graybearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable__s a tender stripling, capable of being improved into all that it ought to be, but scarcely yet had shown the remotest promise of becoming. He had that sense, or inward prophecy, __hich a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,__hat we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are the harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.
The House of the Seven Gables
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Man__ own youth is the world__ youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth__ granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. So it was with Holgrave. He could talk sagely about the world__ old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and therefore looked upon the world__hat graybearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable__s a tender stripling, capable of being improved into all that it ought to be, but scarcely yet had shown the remotest promise of becoming. He had that sense, or inward prophecy, __hich a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,__hat we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are the harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.
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