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.
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.
The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else we are the busiest people in the world.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
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