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All diseases run into one, old age.
All diseases run into one, old age.
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his read more
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date read more
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a read more
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!