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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
— Lucille Ball
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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
— Julie Burchill
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
— George H. W. Bush
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In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.
— Kim Cattrall
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As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level…
— Julia Gillard
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Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a…
— Dalai Lama
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As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion…
— Emma Watson
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Women are not forgiven for ageing
— Jane Fonda
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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in…
— Thandie Newton
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I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success…
— Alan Ladd
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?
— Paul McCartney
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
— Malcolm Cowley
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