“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.”
The quote "Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeare…" is famous quote attributed to Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher.
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
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XV. Why we give worship to the Gods when they need nothing.
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