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«Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life»
Author: Carolyn Wells | About: Age, Youth | Keywords: beg, boon, ills, rife, rife with, silly, vapid
«To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree»
«Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man»
Author: Yoko Ono (Artist, Musician) | About: Cosmetics | Keywords: boon, cosmetic, cosmetics, sighted
«Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It many intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international af»
«If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: boon, coveted, hinder
«What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration»
«With only half a lip you kiss, And half of that I ne'er' should miss, A greater boon, of worth untold, Wilt grant me? That whole half withhold»
«And let them pass, as they will too soon, / With the bean-flowers' boon, / And the blackbird's tune, / And May, and June!»
«The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind»