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“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.”

World Made Age My Own Quality Wonder Mystery Childhood Middle Special Promise Horror Scene Evidence Immortality Visible Intensity Vague Middle Ages Hints Seductive Menace Plausible

Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950

Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950

“The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.”

Believe Age Childhood Saint Old Age Immortality Growing Old Infancy

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“Life is the childhood of our immortality.”

Life Life Is Childhood Immortality Godly

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”

Years Firsts May Evil Pieces Our Lives Childhood Youth Flower Broken Casts Lovely Immortality Intangible Ivory Mould Odor Remnants Lovely Things

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.”

Said Age Childhood Fine Old Age Immortality Honorable

Author:John Wolcot

“Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.”

Men Children Teach Childhood Strength Taught Weak Immortality Manifestation Glorious Sinner

Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“Life is the childhood of immortality.”

Life Is Childhood Immortality

Author:Daniel A. Poling

“This life is but the childhood of our immortality.”

Life Is Childhood This Life Immortality

Book:Tree of Smoke

Source: Tree of Smoke

“A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”

Age Childhood Aging Old Age Immortality Honorable Fatherhood

Author:Pindar

“To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.”