Francis Bacon Quotes, Age Quotes, Plot Quotes

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

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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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Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

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When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

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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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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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In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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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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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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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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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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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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