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Charles Darwin quote: "antiquity"
antiquity Charles Darwin
Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the... Charles Lamb
Voltaire quote: "Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity."
Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. Voltaire
Francis Bacon quote: "Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history..."
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Francis Bacon
Ellen Glasgow quote: "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea..."
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. Isaac Mayer Wise
I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton. Kathleen Robertson
Stephen Bayley quote: "I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but..."
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. Stephen Bayley
Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe. Loren Eiseley
They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers. Paulo Coelho
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it. Gustave Flaubert
What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible purpose of the engine, and between them man, equally... Evelyn Waugh
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny. Terry Prachett
Why should we celebrate These dead men more than the dying? It is not to ring the bell backward Nor is it an incantation To summon the spectre of a Rose. We cannot revive old factions We cannot restore old policies Or follow an antique drum. These men, and those who opposed them And those whom they opposed Accept the constitution of silence And are folded in a single party. Whatever we inherit from the fortunate We have taken from the defeated What they had to leave us - a symbol: A symbol... T. S. Eliot

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