John Milton Quotes, Mother Quotes, Age Quotes

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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Every age has its beautiful moments.

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For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Age Quotes

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

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In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

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Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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