--- title: "3 Years Scarcely Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Years Scarcely quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Years Scarcely sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/james-hilton-8522_life_now-let-me-begin-by-sketching-for-you-a_359813.jpg" --- > [“Now let me begin by sketching for you a very agreeable picture. You are still, I should say, a youngish man by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hilton/now-let-me-begin-by-sketching-for-you-a-very-agreeable-picture-you/) [James Hilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hilton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/james-hilton-8522_life_now-let-me-begin-by-sketching-for-you-a_359813.jpg) > [On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/on-the-whole-age-comes-more-gently-to-those-who-have-some-doorway/) [Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/782/freya-stark-3403_abstract_on-the-whole-age-comes-more-gently-to-th_2335410.png) > [In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/in-a-man-s-middle-years-there-is-scarcely-a-part-of-the-body-he-would/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/e-b-white-1448_age_in-a-man-s-middle-years-there-is-scarcel_3145075.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years-scarcely/#itemlist", "name": "Years Scarcely Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Now let me begin by sketching for you a very agreeable picture. You are still, I should say, a youngish man by the world’s standards; your life, as people say, lies ahead of you; in the normal course you might expect twenty or thirty years of only slightly and gradually diminishing activity. By no means a cheerless prospect, and I can hardly expect you to see it as I do—as a slender, breathless, and far too frantic interlude. The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime! But you, it may be, are destined to be more fortunate, since by the standards of Shangri-La your sunlit years have scarcely yet begun. It will happen, perhaps, that decades hence you will feel no older than you are to-day—you may preserve, as Henschell did, a long and wondrous youth. But that, believe me, is only an early and superficial phase. There will come a time when you will age like others, though far more slowly, and into a condition infinitely nobler; at eighty you may still climb to the pass with a young man’s gait, but at twice that age you must not expect the whole marvel to have persisted. We are not workers of miracles; we have made no conquest of death or even of decay. 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