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• The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

  William Jones

  Latin, Perfect, Greek

  "The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus" (1786)

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• Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Years, Glue

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

  Francis Bacon

  Father, Men, Tyrants

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• Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Names, Stories

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107

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• Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

  Voltaire

  Praise, Stills

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2829, Delphi Classics

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• All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

  Tacitus

  Example, Fields, Precedent

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• The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

  Jim Rohn

  Two, Temptation, Possibility

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 21, 2012

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• Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Order, Law, Evil

  H. L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.45, Read Books Ltd

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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Childhood

  Plutarch (1832). “Lives of the most select and illustrious characters of antiquity”, p.9

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• Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived than those who have employed themselves in satire, under whatever dress it may appear.

  Joseph Addison

  Dresses, May, Satire

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• You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Dog, Horse, Children

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• Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

  James Madison

  Rights, Names, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Age, Empires, Opinion

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.6

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  The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

  Victor Hugo

  Buddhism, Men, Glimpse

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Stars, Community

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Standing Up in the Milky Way". Documentary, March 9, 2014.

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• Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Our World, Different, Earth

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• No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Country, Writing, Simple

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983). “Novels”, p.854, Library of America

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• The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Earth, Geology, Archaeologists

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.21, Arktos

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• We learn not in the school, but in life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Learning, School

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• Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

  Vincent of Lerins

  Catholic, Novelty, Sacred

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• Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

  David Sylvester

  Stars, Renaissance, Warhol

  David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage

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• Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Competition, Praise

  Thomas Hobbes (2002). “Leviathan”, p.76, Broadview Press

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• Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

  Bayard Taylor

  Cities, Foundation, World

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.106, The Floating Press

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• Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Fall, Hero

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• It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Long, Taught, Neglect

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