Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope...

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope...

A good intention clothes itself with power

A good intention clothes itself with power

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

We change, whether we like it or not.

We change, whether we like it or not.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we...

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we...

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and...

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of...

The less government we have the better.

The less government we have the better.

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the...

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the...

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.