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"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."
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"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
Age
"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
Doubt
"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."
Time
"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
Heart
"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."
Religion
"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."
Critics
"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
Beauty
"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."
Gentleman
"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."
World
"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."
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