"Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age."

Age, Ideas, Thoughts, Living

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"Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections."

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"Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven."

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"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world."

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"It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind."

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"If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!"

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"Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past."

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"We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God."

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"There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part."

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"Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause."

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"Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven."

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