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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still read more
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the read more
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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 know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in read more
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
