"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."

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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."

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"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

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"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years."

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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."

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"Weaklings must lie."

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"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"

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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

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"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."

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"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."

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