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Source: Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe

“My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.”

Firsts Would Be Age Grows Advice Ancestor Ice Age

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.”

Ends Age Stones Investing Ran Stone Age

Author:Ahmed Zaki Yamani

“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”

Mind Wells Children Age Purpose Answers Five One Thing Objects Inspire Industry Habit Importance Twenties Prepared Active Observation Juvenile

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

Writing Age Young Lying Language Cases Forever Impossible Youth Tyranny Obedience Introducing Despotism Implicit

Book:The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”

People Book Reason Age Young Method University Inns Taverns Vicinity Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.”

Age Certain Opinion Rejected

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.”

Humans Age Society Human Nature Circumstances Civilized

Book:Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

Source: Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of

“These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.”

Want Feels Age Water Succeed Reflection Obsession Landscape

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.”

Has Beens Stills Age Success Realizing Unhappiness Illusory

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.”

Play Age Saws Disgusting Refined Denmark

Author:John Evelyn

“I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.”

Wells Age Artist Example Tests Absolutes Test Of Time

Author:Giorgio Armani

“Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.”

Home Care Age Rate Profit Sickness Applause Temperance

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.”

Knows Art Age School Girl Boys Ought Reflection Printing School Girl

Author:Horace Mann

“Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.”

Age Criticism Sacredness Exemption

Book:Kant's Critiques

Source: Kant's Critiques

“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.”

Ifs Needs Wells Moments Age Fire Trouble Wine Glasses Wander Ease Traveler Good Day Grapes Drunkenness Rubies

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

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