Quotes with threescore

  • Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

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  • John Donne Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Josh Billings Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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