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Age Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
- No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
- The age of miracles is forever here.
- Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one…
- The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that…
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