Mortimer Collins Quotes

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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

Mortimer Collins

A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.

Mortimer Collins

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Mortimer Collins

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;
Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!
Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;
Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Mortimer Collins

Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher!
Of magic matter: give it a slight toss over
The ambient ether—and I don't see why
You should n't make a sky.

Mortimer Collins

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Mortimer Collins

Mortimer Collins

Mortimer Collins

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Born: June 29, 1827

Died: July 28, 1876 (aged 49)

Bio: Edward James Mortimer Collins was an English poet and novelist.

Known for:

Thoughts in My Garden
Sweet and Twenty: In Two Volumes (1875)
The inn of strange meetings and other poems (1871)

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