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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

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Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

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I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

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What else may hap, to time I will commit.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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We have seen better days.

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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

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