Voltaire Quotes, Age Quotes, Levels Quotes

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Light Quotes , Age Quotes

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

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Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

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