Mark Twain Quotes, Age Quotes, Way 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.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Age Quotes

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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When the age is in, the wit is out

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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

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Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Age Quotes

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

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It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Believe Quotes , Age Quotes

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Age Quotes , Seriousness Quotes

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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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Time Quotes , Age Quotes

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Time Quotes , Age Quotes

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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Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

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Tags : A. R. Rahman Quotes , Soul Quotes , Age Quotes

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Age Quotes , May Quotes

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

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