Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Running Quotes, Age Quotes

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

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Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

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From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

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My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

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