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It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven… — Philip Neri
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane… — Frances Densmore
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man… — Neal A. Maxwell
A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need… — Swami Vivekananda
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is… — Swami Vivekananda
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow… — Chief Joseph
The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations… — Geronimo
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow… — Aldous Huxley
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty… — Henry Ford
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and… — Ava Gardner
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,… — William Faulkner
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to… — Isaac Asimov
Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick. — Jerry Lawler
I would wrestle Hulk Hogan when I'm 50 years old. — Bob Backlund
I'm 31 years old and can't complain about the money I make and the smiles I can create on people's faces. — Jeff Hardy
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. — Benjamin Franklin
Old age is but a second childhood. — Aristophanes
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker… — Henry Ward Beecher
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close… — Frederick Buechner
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess. — Harold S. Kushner
Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. — George Bernard Shaw
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are. — Don Ameche
There's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different.… — May Robson

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