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“Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.”

Men Long Age Generations Objects Claims Witness Tubes Telescopes

Book:The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics

Source: The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics

“it is a mistake to talk of the twilight of age, or the blurred sight of old people. The long day grows clearer at its close, and the petty fogs of prejudice which rose between us and our fellows in youth melt away as the sun goes down. At last we see God's creatures as they are.”

People Long Age Lasts Grows Mistake Sun Youth Creatures Sight Prejudice Fellows Rose Old Age Twilight Fog Old People Petty Long Day

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.”

Long Facts Age Passion Modern Dying Youth Approach Direct Aging Avoided Obsessive Modern Society Direct Approach

Author:Marya Mannes

“The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.”

Men Years Long Book Age Opinion Generations Late Constant Property Parks Owners Companion Estates Centre Acquaintance Respectable Residence Single Man Housekeepers

Book:Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

Source: Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

“Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.”

Long Age Dies Taught Tragedy Old Age

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”

Long Age Pressure Old Age Concentration Humiliation Disagreeable Leaks

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“Life is long if it is full.”

Ifs Long Age Life Is Aging

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.”

Ifs Thinking Years Littles Long Has Beens Sometimes Dream Age Faces Three Next Study Hundred Three Years Portraits Next Day Three Year Olds

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.”

Way May Long Important Age Winter Block Long Way

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”

Long Matter Age Certain Language Loss Regret Bears Lovers Finals Witness Intricate

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!”

Long Age Desire Horror Old Age Desire To Live Being Old

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.”

Long Made Two Age Poor Player Greatness Son Curiosity Vain Sand Tides Long Ago Asia Greece Rivals Footprint Passed Away Athens Avon

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.”

Humans Long Age Civilization Scientist Ancient Scholar Advent Ancient Egypt Atlantis Human Civilization

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.”

Long Age Law Growth Products Glory Roots Soil English Law

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

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