"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Age, Light, Old

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"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

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"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."

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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."

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"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."

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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."

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