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“How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!”

Men Children Capable Maturity Immaturity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.”

Believe Children I Believe Growing Up Growing Adults Maturity Survived Outgrowing

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.”

Children Spiritual Universe Normal Intellectual Essence Conversion Maturity Phenomenon Passages Spiritual Life

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader