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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep read more
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know read more
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
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.
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.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your read more
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
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.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
