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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.
Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking read more
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less read more
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.
Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine
cooler, and said that it was read more
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine
cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very
small for its age," said Gnathaena.
