Francis Bacon 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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For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.

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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

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No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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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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It is always the season for the old to learn.

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Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

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Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.

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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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