Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Children Quotes, Maturity Quotes

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

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Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

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Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

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The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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