If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
And what's a life - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
It shows that no matter how much money the industry tries to throw at this, the majority of people still believe that nuclear is dirty, decrepit and dangerous.
What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail.
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
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