Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Age Quotes

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

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O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

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A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

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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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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

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Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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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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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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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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[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

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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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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

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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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