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- The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
- Sainte-Beave
- One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
- Dr. Thomas Arnold
- Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
- Author Unknown
- Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
- Author Unknown
- One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Johnson
- They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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