"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

Age, Glory, Passion, World

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"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

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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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"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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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

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"And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday."

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"Nations have their ego, just like individuals."

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"To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand-that is art."

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"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

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"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."

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"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

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