"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."

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"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them."

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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

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"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."

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"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."

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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."

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"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven."

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"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."

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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"

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