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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
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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.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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The machine yes the machine
never wastes anybody's time
never watches the foreman
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
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