"Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years."
― Charlotte Bronte
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Age
― Charlotte Bronte
More From Charlotte Bronte
- "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
- "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
- "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
More In Age
- "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."― David Herbert Lawrence
- "Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."― John Ruskin
- "I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career."― Nolan Ryan