Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
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Ancient
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"There is nothing more ancient than the truth."
Ovid
Poet
"Habits change into character."
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"Time makes ancient good uncouth."
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"New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth."
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"The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless"
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"Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new."
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"It is better to imitate ancient than modern work."
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"For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience."
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"Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace."
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"We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests."
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"According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat"
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"The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before."
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"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof."
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"They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest."
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"My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage."
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"At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me."
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"A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans."
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"There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all."
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
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"Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics."
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