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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping read more
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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.
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.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of read more
Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from read more
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
