But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke
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- But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
- The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
- Beauty is the promise of happiness.