Isaac D'Israeli Quotes About Age
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
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Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!
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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
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Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
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This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
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