Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.

Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison.

The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I read more

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.