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One Age Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
More One Age Quotes
- There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds… — William James
- The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller
- History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to… — Edward Hallett Carr
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine
- The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. — R. H. Tawney