"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals."
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"I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers."
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"All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean."
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"Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age."
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"In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior."
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"I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth."
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"The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles."
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"Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?"
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"After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death."
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"The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage."
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"Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are."
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"Nature abhors the old."
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"Wherever there is power there is age."
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"Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth."
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"The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us."
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"The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?"
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"The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old."
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"We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution."
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"A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age."
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"What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all."
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