standing.--LONGFELLOW.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no
fault committed that I have not committed myself.--GOETHE.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old
men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.--CICERO.

We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age
brings with it its own defects.--GOETHE.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill;
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
--POPE.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written
upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.--VICTOR
HUGO.

Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may
still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind
Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may,
as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very
bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.--W.A. NEWMAN.

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE.

Few people know how to be old.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.--SWIFT.

The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase with
age.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and
comfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.--ADDISON.

Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the
distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our
enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us.--RICHTER.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest
thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
--H.W. SHAW.

AMBITION.--Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.--LONGFELLOW.

He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
--SOUTHEY.

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