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Age Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we…
- The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
- Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
- How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that…
- A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
- I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
- The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
- Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
- We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long,…
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