Famous quotes containing the words age, specific and/or mortality:
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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