Quotes 461 till 480 of 668.
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
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The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39 -
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187 -
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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